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Newspaper Page TextBOUiHTO\, iMSBET & BARNES, Publishers ani Proprietors. X. BOF«HTO.V./ Edi|(rai JON. II. .MMBET. ( £jjc ibatijerit /cbtral Snion j Is published Weekly, in Mi/ledgeriJle, Ga.A Corner of Hnncork find U iikinson Sts., (opposite Court House.J At $2 a year in Advance, ( Unless in Advance, $3 Per Annum.) RATKM OF ADVEBTIS1WO. /Vr * Jiiarc of t icelre Iinet. O ne insertion * I 00, ami fifty cents for each subsequent ocmtinuance. , . rboseseut without the specification of the number oi insertions will be published till lorbid and cimrg accordingly. « il«_ Business or Professional Cards, per year, where they do not exceed Six Links - * * . A liberal contract will be made irith thane irhe wish to Advertise by the year, occupying a specified space LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Ex- •Oatorsor Guaraians, are required by law to be Ik »d on the tirrtt Tuesday iii the month, »etween die horns ol j 10 in the torenoon and three in thi atternoon, aline Court house in thecouniyin which the property is sit uated. Notice of these sales must be given in a publicga- zetts 40 days previous to the day "f8ale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be giv en in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. Noticesto the debtors and creditors of an estate must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court ol Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published for two months. Citations for letters of Administration GuardiaiiSl:ip ; &c., must be published 30 days—for dismission from A d ninistration. monthly six months—for dismission trom Guardianship, 40 days. , Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers. for the full space of three months—for compelling lilies from Executors or administrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full spuce sf three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legnlrequiremeuts, unless otherwise ordered at the following RATES: Citations, on letters of administration. Are. •• 44 dismissory trom Mdrnr’n. “ “ 44 Guardianship. Leave to sell Land or Negroes Notice to debtors and creditors. Sales of personal property, ten days, 1 sqr. Sale of land or negroes by jETxecutors, See. pr sqr Estrays, two weeks For a man advertising his wife (in advance,) VOLUME XXXII!,] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TFESDAY, JUNE 3, 1862. [NUMBER 2. COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAR, 1862. C §■.?-: L =■ 5 4 .'ll ft 00 4 00 3 00 • I 50 . 5 00 1 50 5 00 Feb’v. Mar. gust 1 2 3 4 July. 0 7 8 9 10 il 12 13 14 15 1C 17 18 .'•20 21 22 2324 25 26 2. 28 22 30 31 1 1 A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II !2 13 14 !5 16 17 18 JU2021 22 23 24 25 26 27 2a 1 Sept’k 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ly 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2‘.l 3U31 3 4 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 2 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 a 10 11 12 13 14 15 If, 17 18 132021 22 23 21 25 26 27 2b 29 fto 3i 1 2 3 4 5 c 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1" I s 13 *>Q 21 22 23 24 25 26 ->~ •2b 20 30 Jl'NI. • 1 2 3 4 5 Ootob’k 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 5 6 7 8 20 21 22 23 24 25,26 )213 i; 16 27 2s 29 30 | 19 20 2122 1 - 3 Novf.M 26 27 28 29 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 If. 17 2 3 4 5 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 9 in 11 12 25 26 27 28'29 l 3o 31 u: 17 18 19 1 : Decem. '23 24 25 26: 12 3 4 5 6 7 • 30 J 2 3 8 9 Id 1! 12 13 14 7 h 9 10 15 16 17 18 192t. 21 ii 15 16 17 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 •21 22 23 24: 29 30, 28 29 30 31 2 3 4 9 10'n 16 17 ]g BOOK-BINDING TllE Subscriber is now prfi pared to Jo Book-Bind ing", in all its branches Old Books rebouud, &c. MUSIC bound in tho best style. Blank Books manufactured to order. Prompt attention "ill be given lo all work entiusted to me. Bindir) in Noiilliern Federal 51illedgeville, March 19th, 1861 S. .1 KIDD. ion Ofilrr. 43 COURT CALLENDER FOR 1862. SU?2EIOa CG’O'iS.^S. JANUARY. , JULY. 2d Motnluy. Cmtthaiu. 1st 5Iondnv, h ovd* “Floyd AUGUST. 1st Monday Luinpkint FEBRUARY. 2d 51 rndav, Campbell 1st Monday, Clatk Clark t Lumpkin Dawson 3d Monday, Cumpbt-il 3d 5Iondav, Forsyth Dawson Polk 3d .Monday, Foray ill Glascock Polk Merriwetlier Glasoock Walton 51 t-rri wether j4th 5Ionday, Baldwin Walton Jackson 4th Monday, Baldwin Jlonroe Jackson l’auhling Monroe Taliaferro Paulding Walker Taliaferro Walker Thusday after. Pierce MAKGH. SEPTE5IBER. 1st Thursday. Pierce 1st Sloudav, Appling 1st Slouday, Appling Chattooga Chattooga Cherokee Cherokee Columbia Coweta Coweta Columbia Crawford Cmwford 5!adison Gwinnett 5farion Madison 51 organ Marion 2d 5rouday, Butts 5i organ Bartow 2d5Ionday, Butts Coffee Bartow Elbert Coffee Fayette Elbert Greene Favett Gwinnett Greene Pickens Pickens Washington Waahlt gton Webster Webster 3d 5Ionday, Cobbt 3d Monday, Cobbt Calhoun Calhoun Hall Hall Hart Hart Heard Heard ■Macon Macon Newton Newton Talbot Talbot W are Tnttnal Bulloch Ware Thursday after White Thursday after While 4tii -Monday, Clinch Friday alter, Bulloch Putnam 4th Monday, Clinch Chattahoochee Putnam Rabun Lee Twiggn Chattahoochee Lee Wilkes Johnson Twiggs 51ilu>H Wilkes Kahun Johnson Thursday after Haberslmrr Milton Monday af- ) ter the 4th > Echols 51onday ) Thursday after Habersham 4tbThursday, Montgomery Monday af- / , . ,er >^" n -( Effingham OCTOBER. 1st A 2d Mon. (.’atroll 1st 5Ionday, Dooly ' APRIL. Emanuel 1st A 2d Mon. Carroll Franklin lit Monday, Dooly Early Franklin Fulton Emanuel Gilmer Early Gordon Fulton Taylor Gordon Warren Pike Wilkinson Taylor Ptke W arren Thursday after Banks Wilkinson 2d Monday, Fannin Thnrsfi'yafter Banks Richmond 2d Slonday, Hancock Hancock Richmond Harris Harris Laurens Laurens 51iller Miller Sumter Sumter 3d Monday, Glynn Tuesday after. 5IcIntosh Haralson 3d Monday, Glynn Henry Haralson j Jones Henry Sfurray Jones Oglethorpe Liberty Pulaski Murray Stewart Oglethorpe Union Pulaski W.rth Stewart 'httrsday after Towns Monday Worth Thursday ) Montgomery after * “Bryan after » 4th 51ouday,Wayno L th 5Ionday, Wayne Decatur Decatur DeKaib DeKaib Houston ( Houston J asper Jasper Lincoln Lincoln Schley Schley Whitfield Tattnall Wilcox j Whitfield Friday after, Telfair Wihan Camden Friday after, Telfair Thursday after, Irwin Camden Corinth Correspondent of the Charleston Courier All nS.ouC (Irnrrnl Price aa;l Tiis .TSissois’i Troops. Corinth, May 7, 1SG”. I have lately seen and conversed with lhat “noblest Roman of them ail,” General [ Sterling Price, and in absence of other subjects more interesting, a portion of my ! letter to-day is devoted to facts connect- j ed with this battle-tried hero and his J army. There are some men who seem to have I been born with the laurel upon -their crows. Greatness is thrust upon them. A career uninterrupted by aught save glory and success, is their birthright, and the tribute which is their due, lie tvs sponta neously from the hearts of their fellow- men. Of such a type Sterling Price is a I fitting representative. Leaving ins ci\ ill pursuits in Missouri at the commencement I of our troubles, after having been the re- cipient of the highest honors fu the gift oi j the State, he entered the service of his j country as a General of the Missouri State I Guard. .Of troops lie had comparative!v none. Of arms there was a scantiness both in number and quality, yet, such was the magic of his name, that notwithstand- f( ing these disadvantages, a few weeks found 1 ^ gathered around his standard an array of brave men whose fame and prowess have become a “household word ” The result of that small but glorious beginning is upon the records of the country. The handful of choice spirits has swelled to the dimensions of a cloud, and the partizan chief has become a Major Genetal in the Confederate Army—the deserving peer of that noble cluster, BeanregarJ, lfragg, Hardee, Polk, Breckinridge and John ston. lie has been engaged in more bat tles, conquered more difficulties, turned aside moiy obstacles, and done more hard fighting and effective service than all die other Generals since the war began, and to-day occupies a place in the affections of the people, from which envy, malice or de traction have not yet sought to dislodge him. The star of destiny that lighted up his perilous pathway at the beginning has followed his footsteps, and now rests smil ingly in its zenith- Great achievements are yet in store for Sterling Price, and when the proper time comes, as 1 believe it will, a grateful nation wiil not forget the bestowal of that reward which is his due. Some of your readers may thiuk this ad miration excessively Warm, but the senti ments uttered above are the echo of every heart that has pulsated in the presence ol the Missouri General. A few people have an idea of the character of the man i give you a hasty pen and ink sketch, as he ap peared tome during a brief interview, lie is over six feet in height, with a frame to match, full, but not portly, and straight as an Indian. His carriage is marked with dignity, grace and gentleness, and every motion bespeaks the attitude and presence of the well bred gentleman. He lias a large TVebsterian head, covered with a growth of thick white hair, a high, broad, intellectual forehead, florid face, no beard, and a mouth among whose latent smiles you never fail to discover the iron will that surmounts all obstacles. His laugh, and it is no unfrequent, reveals a set of teeth which like Ethan Alien’s would serve to draw nails. The striking feature, howev er, is his eye; a calm, beautifully blue, soul revealing otb, which is at once a lie) to every emotion of the man. it is an eye which never blanched at danger, and it is the boast of bis soldiers that he never •To the old man,’ was the repiv. ‘Who’s the old man?’ ‘Why, old Dad Price. Haint you heard ofhim yet V ‘Yes, I have, but where is he now?’ continued the questioner. ‘I don’t know where in the h—11 he is now,’ was the veteran’s answer, ‘but wait until we git into a skirmmnge, and I’ll show you ‘Old Dad’ right in the midst of the lire where the lamp posts and small balls are flying the thickest. Look to the front and you kin always find him (hart [Lamp posts, I should observe, is the name the boys of the West give to the long conical shells of the enemy. J The army of General l’rice is made up of extremes. It is a heterogeneous mixture of all human compounds, aud represents in its various elements every condition of western life. There are the old and the young, the rich and poor, the high and low, the grave and gay, the planter and laborer, farmer and clerk, hunter and boat man, merchant and woodsman—men, too, who have come from every State, and been bronzed in every latitude from the 'mountains of the Northwest to the pampas of Mexico. Americans, Indians, half- breeds, Mexicans, Frenchmen, Italians, Germans, Spaniards, Poles, and for ought 1 know, Hottentots—all are mixed in the motley mass, who have rallied around the flag of their noble leader. It is a ‘gather ing of the clans,’ as if they had heard and responded to the stirring Battle Call of my poetical friend Harry Tinned : IIo ! Woodmen by the mountain side, Ho ! Dwellers in the vales, Ho Ye who by the roaring tide, Have roughened in the gales. Leave barn aud byre, leave kin and cot, Lay by the bloodless spade, Let desk and case and counter rot, And burn your books of trade.” Nor is this wonderful army less pic turesque in point of personal attiro and weapons. Every man has come from his homestead fitted with the best and strongest that lov ing mothers, wives and sisters could put upon him. And the spectacle presen'ed as they are drawn up in line, whether for marching or inspection, necessarily forms an arabesque pattern of the mo-t parti colored crowd of people upon which hu man eyes ever resled. Some are in black -—full citizens dress, with beaver hats and fioek coats; some in homespun drab; some in grey, blue, and streaked; some in nothing but red shirts, pants, and big boots; some attempt a display with the old fashioned militia uniforms of their forefathers; some have banners floating from their outer walls’ in the rear, some would pass for our friend the Georgia Ma jor, who used to wear nothing but his shirt collar and a pair of spurs. “Some are in rags, Some iu bags, Aud some in velvet gowns !” Take them all in in all, ‘they rival those fantastic shapes that hang upon the walls of memory in a poet’s dream,’ Aside from the dress, I have been forci bly si ruck by the remarkable pet sonnet of I a majority of the men. They are heavy, large headed, rough, brown faced fellows, who look as if in a fight they might weigh a ton apiece, or‘whip their weight in wild cats.’ Fully three-fifths of them are over six feet in height, and a very considera ble portion are mere striplings, ranging in age from fourteen to eighteen. The health of the army is generally good, per haps better than that of any other body uf men in the field. Yet none have suffered more hardships, encountered more perils, or been more-deprived of the necessaries of life. The weapons are not less miscellaneous than their personal appearance. At first few were armed with any thing but ordi nary shot guns and rifles, and to a consid erable extent such is the case at present, but it is a proud boast among them that ‘Dad Price’s men are the only ones who have yet been able to equip themselves generally from the spiels of the enemy.’ Missourians and Texans wont walk where they can ride. Consequently an unusual proportion of the army is cavalry, but these 1 learn are to be dismounted and turned to active infantry service. A good move. Nearly every man in the division is a splendid shot. While at Memphis 1 beard a bet made that a certain boy, fif teen years old, in one of the regiments, could at the distance of 800 yards hit the crown of a hat four times out. of five with a Minnie musket. The bet was taken by an officer, the hat put up, and the lad, who was qniety standing by leaning on his gun, directed to tire. Ten times in succession he pierced the hat within two inches of the centre. The wager was will ingly paid, and considerately handed to From the Richmond Examiner. Washington ax il wax an/I is— Continued. The interest of the subject has stimula ted the writer of Monday’s sketch ol “Washington As It Was and Is” to con tinue the narrative of things and persons as they now exist in the political centei of Yankeedoin. But it is looking through a lens reversed—everything looks dwaif- ed—even the capital and the politicians. In times gone by it was the custom of ev ery one visiting Washington to saunter in to the halls of Congress and listen to the debates of the master minds upon the af fairs of the nation. We well remember a day spent in the Senate chamber when the destinies of the nation were trembling in the balance of heated debate. The no hie Breckinridge was in the Speaker’s chair. There was awe in the thronged galleries, and solemnity in every word that came from the supporters of Southern lights. Theirs were words of weight that fell like hammers on the forging iron, in strange contrast to the flippant taunts ol the abolitionists. This was followed in a few days by the withdrawal of the South ern members. Enter the halls of legislation now—the House of Representatives. A motley mob of soldiers and civilians, male and female, fill the galleries, and gaudily uniformed Yankee officials crowd the vestibule and lobbies of the politicians. The debate on expulsion of a member for the expression of sympathy with the rebellion is before the House. Lovejoy pouw out liis vial of wrath, and a pungent remark brings down the House and galleries. The speaker enjoys it, but raps the desk, upon which the hilarity increases, and boisterous sal lies of coarse wit are bandied between the representatives on the floor and their con stituents in the galleries. ‘Halloa, Jim !’ is as likely to be answered from the floor to gallery as at any town meeting in New England; and the peanut-enters above thiuk nothing of calling the attention of tlie Speaker below, by a peanut remainder alongside bis head, with a “1 say Sam, won’t you come out and take a drink ?” But now there is silence for once. Val- landingham rises to address the House. It is wonderful what respect a brave man can wring from his enemies, even while in their power. As Mr. Yallandingliam’s “Hr. Speaker” rings through the House, thehum dies out in the galleries, and the members turn to their chairs with a con temptuous jeer on their faces to listen to his remarks. * Like a Roman Gladiator he stands stud ying the prelude to Ins remarks, looking around on his enemies, who, if they dared, would knife or pistol him at his seat. His words begin to come hot. heavy, scorching, in his denunciation of the illegal measure of the Administration. The /Speaker uneasy, the members grin and wriggle in their seats, and the galleries burst out in to a pandemonium of hisses, yells, and curses. The Speaker raps bis gavel, but the storm continues, the hissing daiting down like the tongues of serpents upon the unshielded head of Mr. Vallaudigham, who stands unmoved, toying with his watch-guard, waiting for (lie restoration of order which comes by and by, and be proceeds, with intervals of interrup tions such as wo have described. Fre quently dispatches from the Yankee gen erals are read in the House and Senate, announcing “Another Glorious Union Vic tory,” amid hand shaking and congratula tions on the floor and cheers and cries from the galleries. Such a condition of things as we have described can be witnessed any day at the capitol during the session of Congress. But the most humiliating result of the con dition of affairs there is uses to which the capitol has been turned. The base ment has been turned into an immense hake house for the manufacture of bread for the soldier. I he basement of the Baptist church, including the school and lecture room, has been converted into a stable for horses, and a proposition is now edtertained of taking Trinity church for a soldier’s hospital, in retaliation, for the supposed disloyalty of its pastor, people and vestry, in the paster re.using to read the prayer of thanksgiving for the success of the Yankee government The capitol, public buildings and squares have been greatly injured by the quarter ing of soldiers and the picketing of horses therein. The injury to the capitol has been repaired in a measure, but the walls still bear the wounds of bayonet thrusts, nail marks and grease. May they ever re main the marks of the infamy of the Yan kee Government. The scenes to be witnessed at the White j House receptions ol Lincoln would great- \ ly excite the risibilities of nuy Southern ! lady or gentleman who has attended on ! Guerrilla Warfare*. The New Orleans Bee very clearly ex hibits the utilities of guerrilla warfare a- gainst an invading army. A large army is like an immense milleped, that, with its thousand feet, has hut one sting. Dis able its feet, and it will be unable to wound with its sting. This is the philoso phy of guerrila warfare. “To killer take away from the enemy one horse or mule,” in the language of the Richmond Exami sr quoted by the Bee, “is equivalent to starving ten men. and to blow up or burn two wagons, is to disable the whole com pany. Our guerrillas should therefore make the capture of draft animals and the destruction of transportation their leading object, and everything else secondary to that main purpose.” The recent exam ples of Capt. Morgan, and other dashing leaders of scouts and guerrillas in Tennes see, have been much in accordance with these precepts. Every man in the South, who is not engaged with some regular mil itary organization, ought to awaken at once to the great service ho can render with his g i - his hunting knife and his axe; his tough and fleet pony lor treading woods and defiles, or his canoe for winding* th rough mazy swamps; in impeding the progress and paralyzing the energies ol the enemy wherever an invading column attempts to penetrate the heart of the country. Our guerrillas, scouts aud shaip- shooters, have it in their power to make every bush seem instinct with hostility to the foe. every forest alive with mysterious danger, every glen and glade shadowy with strange disaster. A gentleman fiom New Orleans, who repeatedly viewed the Federal men-ef- war from the levee as they lay in the stream, informs us that they bore main marks of the conflict through which the) bad passed. Some of them were riddled with many shot holes, and ft was under stood in the city that the enemy’s loss ol life was very heavy. The reports are that the Confederate flotilla made a desperate fight, and that the marks of damage on the enemy’s vessels were the work of our na val gunners. Many of the enemy’s ves sels had to constantly keep their steam pumps going to prevent sinking, and a force was at work endeavoring to raise one of the docks to enable the repair of damages. fLe Confederate “MeCrac,” which came up under a flag of truce, was completely riddled, and only kept from sinking by in cessant working of the steam pumps. IS he sunk in a short time after pumping was suspended. parted in the night, whose tenants hav taken a moonlight flit, or whose foreman in his business, has set up for himself ovei the way. We can see nothing in the Northeri press but the simple passion for victor} and success. The South must be conquered humbled and subjugated. The slave mus be brought hack, newly manacled and fei tered, put on double task work, beate with more stripes, and made to feel tha he is a slave. Such a tone can serve to in purpose but to cotnfirrt the Confer erat States in the opinion that they have beei the slave of a tyrant majority, and that it was, indeed, high time to break the yoke Grant that the tone of the South is equally tierce ; we expect that , it accords wit! their position. They have retired to their Mans Sucer from the presence of a tyrant Hut the use of such a tone does not accnrtt with the position of the Federal States.— If the Union is what it pretends to be they ought to see, more in sorrow than ii anger, the suicidal folly of their fellow citizens in the South. OI«l Biowtilow. The “Fighting Parson” is now in New England among his abolition brethren, de livering lectures on the subject of this “in famous rebellion,” and denouncing the people of the South as he denounced Pryne and the Black Republicans two years ago. A Boston paper, noticing his arrival in that city, thus speaks of him : “A more coarse minded, vulgar, abusive, pugilistic disputant, it would be difficult to find. It is, however, to bis credit, un der such trying circumstances, that he re fused to play the traitor; but this makes him neither a gentleman nor a Christian.” From the Charleston Mercury May 21st.. The Formation of Pniiizau Companies. Through the courtesy of Hon. W* Por- cher Miles, we are enabled to furnish our readers with the following letter from the Secretary of War, on the formation of companies of Partizans under the recent Act of Congress : Confederate States of America, I War Department, > Richmond, May 15th, 1862. ) Hon. Wm. Porcher Miles, Charleston, S. C: Sir : Authority to raise partizan corps is granted only upon application, approved by the General commanding the Depart ment in which their services are required. The number of such corps, aud their kind or arm of service, are thus left exclusively within the control of the General com manding the Department. The officers thus authorized, are commissioned with proper rank, when the corps is mustered; all subordinate officers are elected. These corps must bo regularly enlisted and mus tered for the war, and must be organized as other corps of the like arm, viz : 60 pri vates to each company of cavalry, 64 to each company of infantry, &c. It is not considered desirable to increase the num ber of such corps beyond the actual exi gencies of the service in each Department, and this is the purpose of the rule which has been adopted, and is stated above. Volunteers of such cor wfrhi Sleeping urn! Eating. Hall’s Journal of Health says: “For persons who eat three times a day it ample and sufficient to make the last meal <>f cold bread and butter, and a cup ol warm drink. No one can starve on it while a perseverance in the habit soon begets a vigorous appetite for breakfast, so promising of a day of comfort.” If one would always have a sweei mouth and a clean tongue, he cau secure them both by simply ceasing to overtax his stomach. ’Ibis frequent eating is an evil, mischievous habit, ruinous of both health and comfort; and it prevents tin individual from receiving the great amount of enjoyment which it was intended In should receive from eating, and which i necessary to perfect nutrition. A othing should be eateu between reg ular ineais, whether the meals are taken two or three times a day ; nor should one eat so that the quantity uudigested will in duce heaviness or uncomfortable feel ings. The cook tastes the fond she prepares, and by this frequent tasting, she destroys both the relish for her meals and health.— There are many housekeepers who have the same pernicious habit. Dont like the Elephant.—A letter to the New York Herald says: 2V negro, a very desperate character, was hungat West Point, on the river, last Friday, tor the cold-blooded muider ol' the Massachusetts soldiers, lie had caught them asleep alone, and murdered them for their money. He was caught the next da) and was made to jump off' the limb of a tree with a rope around his neck. '1 his murder, and another instance of atrocity, cruelty, deceit, and ingratitude, on the part of negroes in camp, have completely cured the Massachusetts soldiers of that negro worshipping mania, of which they have hitheito been possessed. They have repeatedly declared in my hearing, that they wished that the war could be con ducted in such a manner as would leave the status of slavery just as it was before the war; for the slaves have proved them selves utterly unworthy offreedom, and ut terly unfit to be free. And such toohasbeen my experience in regard to them. w in*the ages of conscription, from any such occasions in former times, when the persoiunot actually in service, or enrolled " inrofil the sharp shooter as a tribute to his skill. ! looked unpityingly upon the sufferings of j As the loser remarked, ‘it don’t pay/ very Monday “ Betrien Charlton MAY 1st Monday. Clayton Scriren Gilmer Randolph Upso-i 2d_Monday, Catoo-a Jefferson Thursday after. Irwin Monday after Charlton NOVEMBER. 1st Monday, Berrien Se riven Clayton Etiinghnm Ban h.lpli Upson 2d Monday, Catoosa Jeff.-rson Mitchell 51 nsoogee 3d 5Ionday, Bibb Bui ke Quitttnan Spalding Trorp Baker 4th Jlonday, Dade Terrell Thursday nfler. McIntosh Monday “ Ct 'quitt *• “ Liberty Mon. after Libeny,Bryan DECEMBER. 1st Monday, Dongherty Lowndes 2d Monday. Br/v k s Clay 3d Monday Thon.as at eacfi Chat ham Fannin Mitchell M uscogee 3d ilonday, liihb Burke (juittinan Spalding Troup Union Baker Thursday after Towns 4th Monday, Dade Terrell Last 5fondnv. Colquitt JUNE. 1st Monday, Lowndes Dougherty 2d Monday. Brooks Clay 3d Monday. Thomas “May bolds three weeks, if necessary term. tjndge not reqnired to draw Jurors for two weeks : and not obliged to hold two wetks’ Court in counties of Cobb and Lumpkin. his followers. A passionate lover of music, the same tender heart that broods over sweet sounds gives flow to the sympathy that is ever warm in his nature for suffering humanity. This was manifest duriijg the masterly te- treixt from Elkliorn. ’l ime and again did he dismount from his kotse to give place to some sick or wounded soldier, and when it was suggested4hat it would be better to leave these invalids behind, his reply, as he threw a fiyious look at the individ ual, was—“No sir, I’ll sacrifice my whole j army, before I desert my faithful wound- j ed.” In conversation, Price is a marked spec imen of the ‘line old English gentleman — gentle, suavable, well informed, and j an admirable listener. lie speaks quick ly, hot with caution, and his woids are as | laconic and decisive as his acts. He reads human nature intutively, and posseses the rare faculty of readily adapting himself j to every person with whom he. is brought j in contract. Accessible to all. he is as kindly democratic with his soldiers its he is courtly with his equals. No one can lay an affront at the door ot >terliiig 1 rice. It is this careful consideration which has given so flint a hold upon the heart ot his men. . . Some idea of the attachment existing between the General and his army, may be had f.om the tact lie is everywhere known, by the affectionate soubriquet ot “Old Dad.” , , „ ‘IVlto do you belong to ?’ asked an offi cer of one of the passing soldiers in a regiment during its transit through Mem phis. 11 to bet on stock you know nothing j about.’ The young man afterwards re- j marked to a bystander, that he Dever miss- ; ed anything be could see. Such is a brief sketch of Price and his noble little army—the only organized body of men in the Confederacy wb.o have thus iar lived up to the inspired ‘drop pings,’ a part of which 1 have already quoted: “Come with the weapons at your call, With musket, pike and knife ; He wields rhe deadliest blade of all Who lightest holds his life !” In conclusion, I may add that “Dad Price and his boys” are now here, and in a posriion where the ‘hand writing upon (he wall’ of their future fame will go down t;> posterity inscribed with the crimson tide they will draw from the hearts of the enemy. PERSONNE. The Petersburg Express represents the sickness in McClelan’s army as frightful 1 has been estimated as high as 40.000 II' this be so in the green wood what will it be in the dry, when the heats of July and August come to tell upon Northern consti tutions? We find hints of the same char acter in Northern letters from McClelan’s camp. 1 hey represent it as a land ol frogs, the music of those amphibious ani mals murdering sleep and greatly annoy ino- the Federal Braves. The country, say they, is low. flat and wet, the days hot and the nights cold and altogether not worth lighting for. In connection with the clima'e, typhoid fever is mentioned by the writers. beauty aixl fashion of the Sou'll graced the East Room. They are “backwoods” all | over, and the etiquette displayed is of the style which slaps on the back and says “How are you old boy?” The old wo- , men bring the babes for their chief magis- | trate to kiss, an.l the old men the boys, ( that they may receive a pat on the head to be remembered in after times. The "Jenkins” of the press make the receptions more ridiculous by their at tempts to describe them, for which they are occasions no more suitable than would be a husking or an apple paring. Here in Washington the august censor of the press of the United states holds his awful seat. His mission is to murder truth. Around him are located the branch officers—the New Y'ork herald, Times and Tribune, and several other Northern journal.-—when all accounts of a nature requiring censorship are prepared and pass ed under the censor’s eye and pen. On the eve of the sailing of a steamer from New Y'ork or Boston to f urope a great Union success was sure to be announced in the next morning’s papers. The Her ald’s account of the battle of Shiloh was telegraphed through the censor at Wash ington, though it purported to have come fry way of Cairo. It was intended to go out by the steamer for Europe to bias American affairs in Northern favor. In short, the office of the censor of the North ern press is the overseer of one great la boratory oflies, and bis business is to de tect any particles of truth that might creep into the material. Several of the reporters of the press are now, or were very recently, under arrest in Washington for giving too much lati tude to truth in their reports. as conSfcripts. In regard to pay, bounty, clothing, arms, &c., these corps stand on precisely the same footing as other volun teers for the war. Respectfully. GEO. W. RANDOLPH, Secretary of War. Truth from the I.oihIoh Tinirn. We copy the following passages trom an article in the London Times on Ameri can affairs: Will any body show us a line or nrgu inent ora strain of eloquence by an Amer ican writer of reputalion and standing aiming to prove that the L liion is as great a benefit to the Southern States as to the Northern, and that even on the narrow ground of private interest the Secessionist^ are bound to lay dow n their arms, aud as sist in reconstructing the Union? The tone of the Northern piess is just that to make the Southern population feel that their secession is a ternble loss, not to themselves, but to the North. In fact, it is treated as a fugitive slave question.— The Southern States have run away from tlieir Northern masters, and ail the pow ers of the law are put in force to recover the valuable property. Mr. Lincoln, in- ; deed, goes so far as to offer a reward ; at least, he intimates what expense the North will go to, if it can get back its Southern dependents. But when it is evident that their loss is immense in the Northern esti mate of the crisis, it follows that secession is a gain to the South. No doubt there are mutual benefit in the United States; but those supposed to be enjoyed by the South never showed so ill as they do now uuder the : From the Nashville Dispatch of the 15th inst. Hunting Colton in the Confederate Stales It seems to be pretty certain that the cotton destroyed along the Mississippi and If ed tiver. since the capture of New Or leans, will amount to fully one hundred thousand bails. This would have realized to the holders, at the price current in New York at present, something like twelve million dollars or upwards, and at a low estimate, it is a sacrifice of several million dollars on the part of the holders, but the New Orleans Delta says “they claim no commiseration or sympathy for the sacri fice.” The wholesale destructions of cotton, which seems thus to have been inaugura ted, will exert a powerful influence upon the cotton markets of the North and Eu rope, as well, as the Delta expresses it, as “send grief and miseries to the great manufacturing communities of the world.— In regard to the former position, we see its effects upon the New York market already. The New York Herald of the 10th says. “The cotton market was much agitated and excited yesterday by the re ported destruction of large quantities of the staple in New Orleans, stated by some despatches to have amounted to the large quantity of 11,000 bates, or to about the to tal stock in that market. Statement were ay be received ; also current that a sirnilarfate had befallen the cotton at the river landings for a long distan?e above New Orleans. The result was that the market here speedly advan ced from lc to lie. per lb. It closed tha day before at 261c. for middling uplands. Y'esterday it closed stiff at 27i'&28., with sales to the trade of 1,0/5 bales. A gov- | eminent public auction sale also came off earlier in the day, and before the effect of j the news was developed. It comprised : 460 bales of Sea Island, of small weight at aji average of 511c.” * * * Should the destruction of cotton beany thing like universal in the “Cotton States,” there is no telling where prices will stop in their upward career. Some months ago upland middling cotton sold in New Y’ork at 42c., we believe. Subsequently it run down to about 20c. Since then it went up to within a fraction of 30c, We now find it rallying from the descending scale, and it recovered from one to one and a half cents in a single day. If this effect should be produced by the reported des truction of the cotton stored in New Or leans alone, what must be the effect of the destruction ofimmense quantities, an event that now seems probable ? Added to this we have the fact, which seems to be well established, that but a very small belt of land has been planted in cotton this year in the “Cotton States.” We thus see that high prices for cottoin must invitably ensue unless a stop be put to the destruction of the staple; and even then, high priees must prevail, because a crop cannot now be planted this year. The raw material being high, every kind of goods manufac tured out of cotton will necessarily com mand high prices. Every arrival from England brings us accumulating evidence of the distress and ne New York Woild remarks, opinions unanimous that the distress is likely to grow and become more extense and severe ban any which has ever bten known iu Great Britain, except that in Ireland a few years ago, and excepting that only because "f the deficiency of food which then ad ded famine to the general impoverishment. 11 It Caltad Horn im. Tills greatly di.-uugui/riteU p<1 m/n chief passed hrongh here yesterday (Tuesday) inonfiug, uu his vav to Lorintii—ntakii.g uu stop, much tu the regret ■! uur people who were auxiuus to get a look at hun. Siuee the 24th April last, lie has traveled 1,160 dies, captured and patoled 780 fed era Is, destroyed wo trains and a depot, and burntthree bridges on the ."uisville & Nashville Railroad, and captured $3u.- stU in federal funds, which he disposed of iu a way emi- ■entlv becoming a Christian, Southern gentleman, tufi a’ humane warrior, as reluted by ns yesterday. When he captured the passenger train, tlielankee rumen on it, who were going down to Nashville, rere panic stricken with the sorest bight. They had i terror of him from what they had previously l/eard if him Ashe stepped on the" car and they learned t was Morgan, they yelled with fright as tho’ Old rick had suddenly appeared betore them. ’ Ladies,” :ud he, “I am a Southern soldier, and hold lhat la nes and their baggage are sacred aud to be sciupu- ./usly respected everywhere. This engine is worth aueh to llte enemies ot my country, and I greatly de ne to destroy it; but it aud two carssbaii be spured o curry you buck to Loisville. You are helpless wo- ileu.” ' When he had ihus spoken, a perfect shower •f thanks—real gratitude—was awarded him by the romeD. One of flietii then approached hun, with lands clusped, in the most imploring attitude, and in riteous accents begged that her husband might not >e killed. “.Madam,” respeuded the gallant partizan, '1 cannot promise you that; your husband shah be ft with you—take care of him and keep hint trom icing killed if you cau;" whereupuu she frantically eized his hands', aud with a joy that was uucoutrola- fie, bedewed them witli her tears, while she imprint- d CD them a warm kiss of gratitude for this ussu- -inee that b-*r husband should neither be killed Dor taken from her. we icmiz ...at Morgan attributes hie disaster at bauon to having men with him—especially captains ind other officers, who are not of his own chousing— iud that he has gone to Gen. Beauregord to get per- tission to choose his own men to operate with him ia II future undertakings. I*. S.—We are authentically informed that the pnek- ges of money captured by .Morgan were not all pencil by him, till lie reached Chattanooga, when he otind it to amount to £3511.000.—Confederacy, tils/. Sterling Price. The correspondent uf the Savannah Republican ays he heard an uuusal cheering a short time ago u a camp near him. and found it to be occasioned >y the return of General Price with the rear-guaid f his army, after an absence of ten or twelve lays. His men were uproarious for joy al seeing im again. Like all favorites, it seems be is anown among his men by soubriquets more ex pressive than respectlui. They call him “Dad” nd “the Old Tycoon.” The correspondent de er ibos Gen. Price as a man tifly-tive or fifty-six ears old, six feet high, two hundred pounds eight, with grey hair, a round beaming face, all of kindness and intelligence, frank and hearty n bis manners, and entirely devoid ol all pretence, well or military hauteur aud stateliness. He says: ilalleck sent a message to Gen. Price a short ime since, by a geutleman who was passing the lies. “Tell Gen. Price,” he said, “that he had tie advantage of me in Missouri, for he knew the ouulry bettei than I did ; but 1 have got him now here I want him, and expect to capture him and nip his army soon.” “When you go btek,” was rice’s reply, “say to Gen. Halleck lhat he has tot tm-u enough in his army to capture me. And s to whipping my boys, tell him he may select DO of the best men iu hts whole army, ami 1 will ake the same number of mine as they come and ltboui distinction. He shall lead hts 114) men, ltd i’ll lead mine; and we will go into an open field to fight it out; aud the fate of the Somhei'n oufederacy shall depend upon the result. Tell in that, will you?” But a still mote characteristic anecdote of Price ante to our ears yesttrday. Shortly after he had tilted the army at Corinth, Gen. Beauregard con- ucted him to the lines of thccamp and with a good leal of pride exhibited and explained the strength his fortifications “ Wfiat do you thiuk ot these orks, General Price?” “Why, General,” an- wered Price, “to tell you the truth, I never saw ut two of kind before, and that was after, our boys had taken them.”—Macon Telegraph. From the Macon Telegraph. ■low to Save Hall. Albany, May 17tli, 1862. Air. Editor: I am about to leave with Gapt. Hines’ company (the Sidney John son Guards,) for service, and 1 wish to leave behind me a receipt which (in these hard times) will make one bushel of salt go as far as six bushels. Kill your meat, take the bones out of it, feed the hone with its meat immediately, spred, the unboned meat and let it cool one night, and then pack close; put weight on it to crowd it down or press it as tight as possible. Boil a peck of salt to twenty gallons of water down to sixteen gallons, let it coni and then pour over and cover the meat, refill your trough or barrel as long as the meat will take the above brine (two hours.) Let it stand and use. it as you need it. It will be good after taking it out of the briue one week, and as long as it is left in it. B. F. COLLINS, Overseer for Col. Leonidas Jordan. P. S. The above has been tried and proved, and found perfectly reliable, with the peck to thirty one hundred pounds of meat. B. F. C. light of the Northern commentators. If _ we are to believe them, they are now in want that prevail in the manufacturing dis- tbe case of the man whose cattle have de- tricts there for the want of cotton; and as From Huntsville, Ala. Maj. Fulkerson and an another gentleman who have recently arrived in Knoxville, Tenn., from Huntsville, Ala., have furnish ed the Knoxville Register with a detailed statement of the outrages of the Y'ankees in North Alabama. The conduct of the enemy is oppressive and insolent; robberies are of constant oc currence, and prominent citizens are ruth lessly thrown into prison, without cause. Among the latter are Ex-Gov, Clay, Ex- Gov. Rtieben Chapman, Dr. Thomas Fcarn, Gen.. P Beirne, and Rev, J. G. Wilson. Ex-Gov. Clay is over 70 years of age and was released on parole not to leave the city limits. Ex-Gov. Chapman is kept at home under a guard. Dr. Thos. Fearu was a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, and peremptorily refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Lincoln Government. Rev. John G. Wilson is P esident of the Huntsville Female College, and expressed himself in his pulpit pretty strongly against. Y'ankee rule. He was promised a release if ho would be more circumspect in his speech; but lie replied that lie was in the habit of speaking his mind pretty freely, and didn’t think he should change in that respect. 31es/-rs. Beirne, McCally, Mustin, With ers, and others about town, and SO odd from the country, were, in addition to those already named held as hostages for tho good behaviour of those who were inclin ed to interfere with the Yankees. The citizens of Huntsville, with tho exception of some half dozen, are staunch ly loyal to the Southern Confederacy. The most prominent of the traitors are Hons. (?) Jere Clemens! aud Geoige W. Lane. Tho former was formerly a Un ionist, but as a member of the Secession Convention of Alabama, signed the Or dinance of Secession to prevent discord among the people of his State and was subsequently appointed Major General of the Alabama army. Lane was appoin ted by Lincoln a Judge of the District Court of the United States for Alabama, in March, 1561, bnttbe indignation of the people of that section prevented him from attempting to exercise his office. Gen. Clemens and Nick Davis are rep resented as frequently drinking and get ting drunk with the Y'ankee officers. Gen. James Hickman, formerly of Tennessee, and Ben Jolly, Alderman of Huntsville, are said to be rather intimate with the Yankees.

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Southern federal union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1861-1862, June 03, 1862, Image 1