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VOLUME XXXIII.]
MILLEDOEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1862.
[NUMBER 12.
COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAR, 1862.
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K-trays, two weeks
y n man advertising
his wife(in advance,)
BOOK-BINDING.
The Subscriber is now pre
pared to do Book-Sind-
ing - , in all its branches
Old Books rebound, Ac.
MUSIC bound in the best style. Blank Books
r, it utactured to order. Prompt attention will be
. ■ n to all work entrusted to me.
S. J. KIDD.
Eli 11 fiery in Mouthcin Federal Fnion <lir.ee,
Miiiedgeville, March 19th, 18(>1. 43
101RT CALLENDER FOR 1862.
SUPSZIIOK. COUZITS.
JANUARY.
1 JULY.
Monday, Chatham.
1st Mondav, Fioyd*
* Floyd
AUG 1ST.
[1st Monday Lumpkint
FEBRUARY.
2d M inday, Campbell
.fl o inlay, Clark
Clark
t Lumpkin
Dawson
Monday, Campbell
3d Monday, Forsyth
Dawson
PolK
.Mondav, Forsyth
Glascock
* Polk
Merriwether
Glascock
Walton
Merriwether
4th Monday, Baldwin
Walton
Jackson
Monday, Baldwin
Monroe
Jackson
Paulding
Monroe
Taliaferro
Paulding
Walker
Taliaferro
Thusd.iy after, Pierce
Walker
MARCH.
SEPTEMBER.
Thursday. Pierce
1st Monday, Appling
Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Chattooga
Cherokee
Cherokee
Columbia
Coweta
Coweta
• Columbia
Crawford
Ciawford
Madison
Gwinnett
Marion
M adisou
Morgan
Marion
2d Monday. Butts
Morgan
Bartow
Monday, Butts
Coffee
Bartow
Elbert
Coffee
Fayette
Elbert
Greene
Fayett
Gwinnett
Greene
Pickens
Pickens
Washington
Washington
Webster
Webster
3d Monday, Cobbt
Monday, Cobbt
Calhoun
Calhoun
Hall
Hall
Hart
H art
Heard
Heard
Maeon
Macon
Newton
N errton
Talbot
Talbot
Ware
Tattnal
Bulloch
Ware
Thursday after White
4th Monday, Clinch
;r.-day after White
lay alter, Bulloch
Putnam •
Monday, Clinch
Chattahoochee
Putnam
Lee
Rab nr.
Twiggs
Chattahoochee
Wilkes
Lee
Johnson
Twiggs
Milton
Wilkes
Rabun
Johnson |
Hi ursday afterllabersham
Milton
Monday af- 4
l iv after Habersham
;er the 4th > Echols
Tnu:- lay, Montgomery]
Mondav )
'f ( Echols
OCTOBER.
is) &. 2d Mon. Cairoll
k Lmngliam
1st Monday, Dooly
APRIL.
Emanuel
*Y -'.1 Mon. Carroll
Franklin
Monday, Dooly
Early
Franklin
Fulton
Emanuel
Gihner
Eai ly
Gordon
Fulton
Taylor
Gordon
Warren
lay aft
"iiday.
Pike
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
yaf ter Banks
lay, Hancock
Richmond
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Sumter
s-r, .McIntosh
Glynn
Haralson
XZ?
Liberty
Murray
Oglet horpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Monday Worth
after * * Bryan
4tn Monday,Wayne
Decatur
D. Kalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
8el. ley
Whitfield
Wilcox
*■ i lav after, Telfair
Camden
; ursday after, Irwin
■Monday “ Berrien
Charlton
MAY
‘ Monday. Clayton
Scnven
Gilmer
Randolph
Epson
Catoosa
J.fTerson
Chatham
Fannin
Mitchell
Monday
Ml!
Holiday, Bibb
Burke
CJuittman
Spalding
Tronp
Union
Baker
' lav after Towns
Monday, Dade
' Terrell
Monday Colquitt •
.. juIte.-
Monday, Lowndes
,, Dougherty
Monday, Brooks
Mia
, * .'lay
dav. Thomas
Wilkinson
. Ptke
Thursday after Banks
2d Monday, Fannin
Richmond
Hancock
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Sumter
3d Monday, Glynn
Haralson
Henry
•Tones
Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Union
W.rtii
Thursday after Towns
Thursday ) Montgomery
after »
4th Monday, Wayne
Decatur
1 leKalb
Houston
J neper
Lincoln
Schley
Tattnall
Whitfield
Wilcox
Friday after, Telfair
Camden
Thursday after. Irwin
.Monday after Charlton
NOVEMBER,
list Monday, Berrien
Scriven
Clayton
Effingham
Randolph
Upson
2d Monday, Catoosa
Jefferson
Mitchell
Mnscogee
■ 51 Monday, Bibb
Burke
Quittmnn
Spalding
Troup
Baker
4th Monday, Dade
Terrell
Thursday after, McIntosh
Monday “ Colquitt
’• “ Liberty
Mon. after Liberty, Bryan
DECEMBER.
1st Monday, Dougherty
Lowndes"
2d Monday,'Brooks
Clay
3d Monday Thomas
bolds three weeks, if necessary, at each
Soldiers Letters.—A correspondent of
tlie Richmond (Va.,) Enquirer suggests an
excellent method for securing the prompt
assortment and delivery of soldier’s Let
ters. His plan is to “turn over the Army
Post Office to the fair daughters of Rich
mond.” We have no doubt that if a suita
ble room was obtained, in the vicinily of
the. Post Office, and the services of half a
dozen young ladies obtained, all the letters
directed to our brave, tnoops would
be promptly and regularly assorted. We
commend the suggestion to the favorable
consideration of the Postmaster Gener
al. W. a
Another thing should he done. The
postmasters throughout the country should
be instructed to mailthe aimy letters in
separate packages.— Under the present
system, letters for soldiers and civilians are
sent togethar in the same packages, and
thus the labor of assortment is doubt-
led, and the the delivery of letters delay
ed. If soldiers’letters were sent as indi
cated, they could he turned over prompt
ly to the clerks in the army office, giving
the cleik in the office proper ample time
to assort the general mail.—Richmond
Whig J tilti 20.
The Drfcuff of Vicksburg.
The following order has been issued :
W ar De partment, 3
Adjutant and Ins. General's Office, >
^Richmond, July 22, 1202. )
[ General Order Xo. 51.J
The successful defence of Vicksburg
against the mortar fleet of the enemy, by
Major ( • encral Van Dorn and the officers
and men under his command, entitles them
to the gratitude of the country, the thanks
of the government, and the admiration of
the army. By their gallantry and good
conduct they have not only saved the city
entrusted to them, but they have shown
that bombardment of cities, if bravely re
sisted, achieve nothing for the enemy,
andalso serve to unveil his malice, and the
hypocrisy of his pretended wish to restore
the Union. The world now see that his
mission is one of destruction, not restora
tion.
Lieut. Brow-n, and the officers and crew
of the. Confederate Steamer Arkansas,
by their heroic attack upon the Federal
fleet before Vicksburg, equalled the high
est recorded examples of courage and skill.
They prove that the navy when it re
gains its proper element, will be one of the
chiel bulwarks of national defence, and
that is entitled to a high place in the confi
dence and affection of ’.he country. By
command of the Secretary of War.
(Signed,) S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
All Important Order.
Richmond, 2d,—Important general or
ders No. .34, from the Adjutant and In
spector General's office, will be published
on Monday.
The first article states that the follow-
lowing orders are published for the in
formation of all concerned. (The next
of a pream
ble”)
'1 he. Second article recites the order is
sued by tbe Secretary of War of the Uni
ted States directing ibe military comman
ders of the government to seize and use
property, loth real and personal, belong
ing to the inhabitants of the Confederacy,
and states that no provision is made for
anv compensation to the owners of private
property thus seized.
The thifd article quotes Gen. Pope’s
recent order for the arrest of all disloyal
male citizens, who aic to he required to
take the oath of allegiance or he conducted
beyond the lines, etc.
The fourth article recites the order of
Brig. Gen. Steinwehr for t he arrest of five
of the most prominent citizens of Page
county, Virginia, to he held as hostages
and suffer death in the event of any of
the soldiers of said Steinwher being f
bv “busliwaekers,” by which tcun
war, which Cartel, in so far as it provides
for an exchange of prisoners hereafter
captured, would have never been signed or
agreed to by this fiovernment, if the inten
tion to change the war into a system of
indiscriminate murder and robbery, had
been made known to it; and whereas; a just
regard to humanity forbids that the repres- ,
siun of crime \vhich this government is ]
thus impelled to enforce, should be uncec- i
essarily extended to retaliation on the en- .
listed men in the army of the United I
States who may be unwilling instruments I
of the savage cruelty of their commanders, |
so long as t lie hope that the excesses of the I
enemy may be checked or prevented by j
retribution on the commissioned officers, |
who have the power to avoid guilty action :
bv» refusing service under a government!
which seeks their aid in the perpetration j
of such infamous barbarities.
Art. 7.—Therefore it is ordered that j
Major Gen. Pope, Brig. Gen. Steinwehr, !
and all commissioned officers serving un- ;
their respective commands, be and they \
are hereby expressly and especially de- |
clared to ba.not entitled to be considered j
as soldiers, and therefore not entitled to !
the benefit of the cartel for tbe parole of j
future prisoners of war; Ordered, further, )
•A PROCLAMATION.
By Joseph E. Brown, Governor
of Georgia :
Executive Department, (
Georgia, July 31st, 1SG2. )
Complaint lias been made to me by tbe
Secretary of War, that instances of deser
tion from the army now in the service of
the Confederate States, exist, and that
officers and soldiers are too frequently ab
sent from their regiments without leave, to
the great detriment of the public service;
at a time when it is of the utmost impor
tance that every man should be at his
place to enable the Government to im
prove the splendid victories lately won
by the distinguished gallantry of our offi
cers and soldiers upon the battle, field.
1 am also informed by the aide and dis
tinguished Head of the War Deparment,
that it has not* been in his power entirely
to correct the.evil by the exercise of the
usual military discipline, and that it can
probably only be done effectually by the
powerful aid of a just public opiouiou.
ilc therefore appeals to me as the Execu
tive of this State, and through me to the
good people of Georgia, for aid in the par
ticular above mentioned, and requests per-
that in the event of the capture of Maj. | mission to use the officers of this State for
Gen- Pope, Biig. Gen. Steinwehr, or of any
commissioned officer serving under them,
the captive so taken shall be held in close
confinement so long as the aforesaid or
ders shall continue in force and unrepeal
ed by the competent military authorities
of the United States, and that in the
event of the murder of any unarmed
citizen of the Confederate States, by vir-
] use or under the pretext of any of the or-
I ders herein before recited whether with
or without trial, with or under pretence of
I such citizen being a spy or hostage, or any
other pieteuee, it shall be the duty of the
| commanding general of the forces of this
Confederacy to cause immediately to be
hung out of the commissioned officers,
prisoners as aforesaid, a number equal to
the number of of our citizens thus murder
ed by the enemy.
By order, (Signed) S. COOPER.
Adjt. &: Ins. Gen.
hot
are
meant the citizens of the Confederacy who
have taken up arms to defend their homes
and families. .
The other three articles are as fol-
'"'art. .3. And whereas it results from the
above orders, that some of the military
authorities of the United States, not con
tent with the unjust and aggressive war
fare. hitherto waged with savage cruelty
against an unoffending people, and exas
perated by tbe failure of ibe effort to sub
jugate them, have now determined to vio
late all the rules and usages of war and to
convert hostilities hitherto waged against
armed forces, into a campaign of robbery
and murder against unarmed citizens and
peaceful tillers of the soil
V . 1 1_ 1
A E.rillmut Telegraphic Feat.
A Confederate Operator Reads Gun red
Halleek's Dispatches for four days.
The Yankee papers say the Confederates
have been tapping the telegraph wires be
tween Memphis and Corinth and reading
the official dispatches. Some of those
dispatches, according to the correspondent
of the New York Tribune, were of the ut
most importance, “giving the very infor
mation most uesired by the Confederates.”
“This brilliant and audacious telegraph
ic feat,” we are told, “was performed with
in fifteen miles of Memphis,” and was con
tinued tor a week before it was discov
ered. W e copy the Tribune's account of
it :
The Telegraphic line between Mem
phis and Corinth is exceedingly important.
General Halleck’s message to Commodore
Davis, General Curtis, and the command
ant of this post, have all passed over it.
Little of the line is guarded, but of late
the Confederates have refrained from cut
ting the wires. The unusual amiability is
now explained; tliey found a better use
for it!
For a week tbe Memphis operators
have detected something wrong in the
working of the instrument and surmise
that some outsider was sharing their tele
graphic secrets. They communicated
ibis suspicion to the superintendent
at t'orinth, who promised to keep a sharp
lookout.
Yesterday they discovered that their
uninvited confident could talk as well as
listen, the transmission of a message was
suddenly interrupted by the ejaculation,
“() pshaw/” A moment after it was
again broken with “Hurrah for Jeff. Da-
the apprehension of deserters and of ofii
cers and soldiers absent from their com
mands withour leave.
While our brave troops are having to
hazaid life, and to endure great hardships
and privations for the protection of our
rights, and the preservation of our liber
ties, it is certainly proper that each officer
and soldier in service, should share his
just proportion of labor and privation.—
Public opinion must, therefore, frown up
on those who, while in service, attempt to
avoid their due proportion of labor and
danger; otherwise the whole burden must
fall upon those who are faithful and true,
and those equally able, but less willing to
do duty,-must often escape.
I therefore issue this my proclamation,
in accordance with the wishes of the Sec
retary of War, commanding and requiring
all Sheiitls, Constables, and Jailors, in
this State, to he vigilant in detecting and
arresting all deserters and all officers and
soldiers who belong to regiments, battal
ions, or companies, of this
State, now in the military ser
Confederate States, without the limits of
this State, or to volunteer regiments, bat
talions, or companies, now in service,
within the limits of this State; and I ap
peal to all patriotic citizens to aid the offi
cers above mentioned in the discharge of
this important duty.
The officer arresting a deserter, or an
officer or soldier, absent from his post with
out leave, will confine him in the, common
jail of the county in which the arrest is
made, if the jail be sufficient, if not, in the
jail of any adjoining county; in which
case, the jailor of the adjoining county is
hereby directgJ to roeoivo u.ifi detain the
person till further order; and will imme
diately notify the Secietary of War, at
Richmond, and the Adjutant and Inspec
tor General of this State, at Milledgeviile,
of his action in the premises, with the
name and description of the person, ar
rested, and the command or corps to which
he belongs, if that fact is known to the
officer.
Given under my hand and the Great
Seal of this State, the day and
year above written.
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
By the Governor :
N. G. Barnett, Secretary of State.
Individuality shows itself as well in
telegraphing as in the footsteps or in the
handwriting. Hr. Hale quo of tbe Mem
phis operators, immediately recognized
the performer not by histune, but bis time,
as a young man formerly in Buffalo and
other Noithern offices, hut now employed
by the Confederates. Mr. Hall surpri
sed him by replying promptly, “Ed. So-
ville, if you dont want, to be bung you bad
better leave ! Our cavalry is closing in
on both sides of you !”
There was a little pause, and then the
reply, “How in the world did you know
me. However, I’ve been here four days,
and learned all we want to know. As
this is becoming rather a tight place,
I think I will leave. You’ll see me again
wheu you least expect it. Good bye,
boys.”
The Confederate operator made good
his escape. He had cut the wire, inserted
a piece of his own, and, by a pocket instru
ment, been reading our official dispatches,
some of the utmost importance, giving the
very information most desired by the Con
federates, were passing, and as t hey were
not in cipher he must have received them.
One from General Hovey, commandant
ofthis post, in reply to a question from
General Halleck, stated the precise num
ber of our available men in Memphis
(only about 3,000 and their exact loca
tion.)
The ill effect of this exposure of our
weakness has been guaided against as
far as possible. General W. T. Sherman J
HEAD-QUARTERS, \
Marietta, July 31st, 18G2. 1
dispose of the salt, when received as fol
lows :
1st. You will gice, without charge, one
half bushel to tbe widow of each soldier
who has died in the military service of the
State, or the Confederate Slates. As you
cannot know the facts, and make this dis
tribution without assistance from the dif
ferent counties of the State. I request 1 he
Justices of the Inferior Court of each
county, to give you a list of the names of all
widows of soldiers in their county ; with a
certifice of two, or more of said Justices,
that the persons whose names are sent,
arc the widows of deceased soldiers. On
receipt of such list and certificate, you will
ship to said Justices at such point as they
may designate, one half bushel for each
soldier’s widow, to be distributed among
them by said Justices.
2d. lou will sell to the wife of each
soldier now in military service, if she de
sires it, and to each widow having a son
or sons in service one half bushel for one
dollar-, the names of those entitled to it,
to be certified by the Justices of the Infe
rior Court, as in case of widows of soldiers,
and the salt to be shipped to ibe Jm.ticc<*
of Inferior Court in each county, at such
point on a Railroad as they may desig
nate, so soon as you have it on hand, and
they send you the. money for it. It is
supposed theie is no county in the State
whose Justices will refuse to make this
advance from the County Treasury, for
the benefit of the soldier’s families, and to
take the trouble and expense of getting
the salt from the Railroad, and distribu
ting it among those in the county entitled,
at the price mentioned ; which can he re
funded to the County Treasury when paid
in for the salt by those who are to receive
it.
Should the widow of a deceased soldier,
or the wife of a soldier in service, desire
more than a half bushel for her own use,
she wiil he permitted to purchase it at
at the price paid by others, in preference
to all other persons, if there is not a sup
ply for all.
3d. \ou will sell to all other heads of
families at the rate of four dollars and fifty
cents per bushel. But no head of a fami
ly will be permitted to receive, more than
one bushel till all are supplied with enough
or aiiy other ^ or P resent nse. You will have each agent
ervice of the to keep a b°°k in which he will enter the
name of each head of a family who gets
salt; and in case one person applies for
the quantity allowed each of several fam
ilies and has the means of hauling it, youi
Agents will let him have it, taking from
him a written certificate giving the name
of each person for whom he receives it,
and stating that he will deliver it to su£h
person at the price he pays for it, and such
price for hauling as may have been agreed
on between the parties. The names ol
the heads of families thus supplied, will he
entered on the hook, that the person re
ceiving the salt for his neighbors may be
detected if he should act unfaithfully. All
^ purchasers will he required to bring with
1 them their own sacks to carry their salt
home from tho plaoo ofsale.
4th. As I can place the salt only at a
few central points in the Slate, you will
establish a depot for its sale by a faithful
j agent, at each of the following places, to-
wit: Cartersville. Atlanta, Athens, Au-
i gusta, Griffin, Macon, Albany, Columbus
| and Savannah. Were I to undertake to
send it to all the towns and depots on the
Railroads, I must employ so many agents
as to embarrass you in securing prompt
settlements, and greatly increase the price
by the payment of so many salat ies to dis
tributing agents. You will take bond and
security from each agent, for the faithful
discharge of Lis duties and the prompt
doubt, gc to any point in the State, on a
Railroad, to the consumer purchasing from
the State agent, free of charge for freights.
I shall do what I possibly can to sup
ply all during the summer and fail ; and
! trust, with what may be made by the
Georgia Salt Manufacturing Company,
whose office is located at Augusta, aDd
with what our peojde will make upon the
coast, (it is expected that all who live
near the coast will at least make their own
supply,) that all who practice strict econo
my may have enough. I respectfully sug
gest to our people to so divide what they
may receive, among their neighbors, till
more can be had, that none may suffer.
And I further suggest that they do all
they can to permit speculators, who have a
supply on hand f>r the accommodation ot
i he people at fifteen to twenty dollars per
bushel, to hold it till the end of the war,
when they can probably afford to sell it
much cheaper. Joseph E. Brown.
Col.
Jared. I. Whitaker,
Commissary General ’
Colonel : Finding that there was hut j
little prospect on account of the impossi
bility of large importations, that private ;
enterprise would afford a supply of salt
for our people this year, and knowing how 1
indispensable it was to health and comfort, ;
1 determined, as the Executive of the j
State to do all in my power for the relief j
of the people, though I might, by assum- j
ing the responsibility, he exposed to the
censure of speculators and such captious
fault finders as can never be pleased.
After considerable effort, I have suc
ceeded in procuring a lease upon a suffi
cient supply of salt water at the Virginia
Salt Works, to make 500 bushels per day,
during the War. and till three months af
ter its termination, if we should need it so
long. I have also employed a reliable
man to go to work, who is to make all the
nesssary preparation as soon a; possible,
and use sufficient labor to make the quan- j
titj' above mentioned. He is already at
work with what kettels and furnaces he
has now in order, and expects to be able
in another month, to turn out the 500 i
bushels per day. ,
Hon. John W. Lewis acted as my agent !
in the negotiations necessary to secure
these results. A large proportion of the
credit, if any attaches, is due to him, as I
should have not been able to secure tbe lease
and make the other arrangements, with
out the information received from him,
and his personal influence and efforts in i
the negotiations. He has rendered val
uable service, and has refused to receive
f iayment to you of the money collected by
lim, and for the delivery to you of the salt
ou hand at any time when demanded by
j you or other agent of the State. Each
agent will sell for cash, and will remit to
you the amount he has collected each
j week. Any agent failing to make such
1 remittance, will he promptly discharged.
; 5th. You will notify the Justices of the
! Inferior Court of each county in this State,
of the arrangements proposed for the pur
pose of supplying widows of deceased sol
diers and wives of soldiers nowin service,
with salt to relieve present necessities, and
request their active co-operation in the
proposed plan.
Gth. When the people of a county will,
by public meeting, appoint a reliable agent
who will obligate himself to them to sell
salt for the accommodation of the people
of the county, at the prices above mention-
tioned, adding, onl} tbe freight which he
has to pay from the place where he re
ceives it from your agent to the place of
; sale, you will be authorized, when you
have a supply on hand, to sell for cash, to
i such county agent, in such quantities as
would be the reasonable proportion for his
county, at the prices above specified
, This will afford those who are disposed to
. render a public service without charge, in
a matter of vital importance to their fel-
lew citizens, an opportunity to display
their liberality. It is hoped some person
with sufficient means will be found in each
county remote from the central points of j
deposit, willing to serve the public for the
public good.
The different Railroad companies in
this State have shown a liberality and a
disposition to afford relief to the people in
I any compensation for either his time or the present emergency, which entitle them
his expenses while engaged in this busi- , to the gratitude of all. I determined to
carry the salt imported by tbe Mate, over
special danger of a Confederate dash.
The brilliant and auspicious telegraph
ic feat was performed between here and
Moscow, only twenty-two miles distant,
and probably within fifteen miles of Mem
phis ! We are at a loss lieie to understand
why, after the enemy has disappeared, .
the inagnifice-.it army with which General
Ilalleek threatened Corinth is unable to ,
trjjard two hundred miles of railroad and
telegraph, or to furnish fifteen or twenty j
thousand men for the capture of Vicksburg. !
We hope that our brilliant successes in the
bushel as will cover only cost and neces- 1 place ofsale to the depot of the consumer,
sarv expenses to the time of the sale.— free. I communicated this determination
My purpose is to sell the salt to the in- j the State Road to the place of deposit and
has already started for Memphis with two habitants of this State, at such price per sale, free of charge, ami to carry from the
of the three divisions under bis command,
and will arrive to day. So we are in no
The standard established at the Works is
50 pounds to the bushel. I have to pur
chase by this standard, and must sell by j and that they also carry all salt imp
it, deducting from the 50 pounds whatever by tbe State free, as well while in p
may be found to he the wastage from drip-
Art G. And whereas this government, -^ egt are no t to be followed by an era of
.nnrt bv the highest obligations o «.u } no t to do it.
■ not required to draw Jurors fortwo
s and not obliged to hold tvv<
- JU utie 8 of Cobb and Lumokin.
bound by the highest « bli g a, recC ssi-
to its citizens, is thus driven o •
ty of adopting such just measures of re
tribution and retaliation as slia f e b ; _
only Won ."* w t
There has beeu a fresh eruption
of Mount Vesuvius. The mountain
is throwing out lava toward Pompeii
and ashes on the Ported side, and the
ping, leakage, &c., after it leaves the
works till it is sol J to the consumer. Ex
perience will soon show how much each
, bushel loses in weight during its transpov-
: tation and storage.
I shall order all the salt consigned to
; you as Commissary General, and desire
vou to take charge of it and have it sold
by reliable agents, to be employed at such
; central points as may he selected as dis-
i tributing points.
If it is ascertained in future that the
to the Presidents of the principal Roads
oftheState, and asked their co-operation,
■■■Hteil
ses
sion of the State as for the consumer after
he has purchased from the State’s agent;
and it affords me great pleasure to say
that I have received responses from the
following Railroad Presidents, in the. or
der mentioned, promptly aud cheerfully
agreeing to render this public service tree
of charge, till further orders : Hon. R. lb
Cuvier, President C. II. R-> and branches,
and of the S. W. Railroad; Isaac Scott,
Esq., President Macon & Western Rail
road ; Hon. John P. King. President Ga.
Railroad and branches, and of tho A. 5:
lired to draw Jurors fortwo; to this government since tlie o o . j g C l iar crefl with electricity,
“red to hold two weeks’ Court i , c ° {for the exchange of prisoners ot City mm g j
price now fixed does not pay cost and all J W. P. Railroad. It is not doubted that
expenses, it can be rasied until it covers | the President of each other Road in the
both ; or if it does more than this, it can State, will meet this request with like lib-
be reduced,
For the present you
crality and patriotism. Tbe salt imported
are directed to ! under my direction will, therefore, no
[From the Charleston Courier.]
EJcath of jauiest El. Thonnvril E>. D.
Thousands of our readers will feel sad
dened aud down, as if each had lost a near
and dear friend, on reading the dispatch
which announces the decease of Rev.
James II. Thornwell, D. D.
We had not been prepared for this sad
loss by any tidings of bis illness, and un
der the startling shocks of a great bereave
ment we feel ourselves utterly unable to
offer even an approximate tribute. It is
consoling to reflect that he needs no eulo
gy or record—his life, example, efforts,
teachings,-labors, writings, and influence
remain with ns. and will live with us, for
good as long as truth shall live or virtue
be honored, or genius admiiecl.
James H. 11, ornwell was translated in
his fittieth year, having been born on the
9th December, 1S12, in Marlboro’ Dis
trict. His preliminary education was con
ducted in that neighborhood and in Cber-
aw until he entered the South Carolina
College at an advanced stage. He gradu
ated with the honors in 1S31, and engaged
in teaching while preparing for the duties
of the ministry.
In 1834, he was admitted to the pulpit
of tho Presbyterian Chuich, aud in May.
183-3, was installed as pastor of the
Church iti Lancasterville, South Caro
lina, aud soon after of two country chur
ches.
The abolition agitations and discussions
provoked by the fanaticism of that date in
the North, gave him one of the first oppor
tunities for addressing a public assemblage
in defence and Vindication of the institu
tions of the South, and the Bible doctrine
of the relation and duties of masters and
servants, lie soon acquired and maintain
ed a reputation which wculd have satis
fied ambition had ambition been his
guide. His aims and ends were higher
and nobler.
In 1837 he was elected to the chief of
logic, rhetoric, and Relies Letters, in the
South Carolina college, in place, of tha la.
lamented Mott. His brief career in this
professorship gave him opportunities for
exhibiting his masterly powers of analysis
and instruction, and gave to the class
which enjoyed his labors advantages which
are well remembered. Retiring from the
College in 1S39, he returned in 1810 to
take the chair of sacred literature, and the
chaplaincy vacated by the call of the able
and beloved Elliott to the Episcopal chair
in Georgia.
His studious habits and arduous labors
impaired his health, never robust or vigor
ous, and he soon found it expedient to
take a tour in Europe, whence he re
turned improved in health and with wide-
ening fame.
Of the manner in which he filled this
office it is needless to speak in the space
and opportunity now afforded. Suffice it
to say lie was all and did all that could
be expected from genius and talents
elevated and ennobled and quickened by
religion.
In 1S51 he retired again from the Col
lege to take the pastorship of the Glebe-
street Church in this city, but in the close
of-that year the call of duty and of the
State replaced him in Columbia, not as-
prolessor but as president.
Such a rail tbns urged rvould be a mar
ked tribute to any one, but it was more
emphatically significant of tbe estimate in
which lie was held, after serving the Col
lege in two classes as Professor, that he
was called to succeed Preston as Presi
dent. Ilc left the college, in December,
1S55, to the regret to all the friends of that
institution, and only in obedience to what
he considered a higher duty. Since then
lie has engaged chiefly as Theological
Professor and a Pastor, and has always
found time to take part in any good
work or word for the advancement of re
ligion, sound morality, learning or patriot
ism.
No man had less taste for the details
of politics so far as mere personal contests
or party pretexts are concerned. No son
of Carolina was ever more keenly and
fearlessly and thoughtfully awake to ail
that touched the honour of tbe State, or of
the South, or of the truth. Had he enter
tained a doubt as to tbe justice and right
eousness of the position and tentes which
induced and proceeded the secession of the
South, bo would have hugged the stake,
or mounted ilie gibbet, sooner than he
would have approved them.
He loved his State, his home, his friends
with a breadth and compasrion of love that
showed his capacities of heart equal to
his head; hut lie loved even more the
truth and the Word of God, and it is for
this, more than for his varied talents and
his profound genius, that he was loved and
is now lamented.
Since the opening of this unrighteous
war, he has been instant, in season and
•..lit of season, in advocating and expound
ing tlie great truths which underlie the
cause of the South, and in enforcing the
great moral duties which are involved in
the struggle.
He has done well and much, and while
in chastened submission we thank God
for such a man, we find it hard to repress
the murmuring thought that he could
have been spared to us and our country
longer.
In tlie teachings of his life and labors
we may find the balm of our great grief,
and to a better and fitter record of .that
life we must now refer tbe stricken church,
and community and country'.
A TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT.
The conscriptinn law is creating here
something like, « tempest in a teapot,
among some of those who had received
their exemptions from militia examining
boards and in other ways, and who had
laid “the flattering unction to their souls”
that they would never be called upon to
face danger at the cannon’s mouth or win
laurels upon the ensanguined field at the
point of the reeking bayonet. The search
ing examination to which they have been
subjected before Capt. Whitehead has
disclosed the fact that many of them have
been playing ’possum, aud are as hale
and hearty men as any in the Confederacy.
As might he supposed, these men are kick
ing up something of a dust, and swearing
most vociferously that they are not fit
subjects for the art militaire, and we veri
ly believe that some of them would think
it no great stretch of conscience to swear
that they were dead men, and that the
earth had been piled upon them for 12
mouths, if by so swearing they could save
their precious carcasses from being food
for Yankee bullets. But all this avails
them nothing. The fiat has gone forth.
They have been weighed in the balances
and are not found wanting. Fight they
must, and they had as well make np their
minds to it at once. If the conscript law
has no other merit, it has this one of de
tecting those who have been shamming
disability and putting them where they
should long since have been, in the ranks
of the defenders of their country. The
tempests in these teapots had as well sub
side.—The more they roar and rant and
rave, the more sterniy will the finger of
scorn be poiutedat them, and the tighter
will be drawn around them ihe chains of
(he military Jaw.—Lynchburg Republi
can.
Prcaialrnt Davis’ I.eHcr lo dm. I.io.
Richmond, 4th.—The following letter
is published this morning from the Presi
dent to Gen. Lee:
Richmond, July 31st, 18G8-
Sir:—On the 22tl of this month, the car
tel fora general exchange of prisoners of
war was signed, between Major Gen.
D. H. Hill, in behalf of the. Confederate
States, and Major Gen. John A. Dix, in
behalf of the United States. By theteims
of that cartel it was stipulated that all
prisoners of war hereafter taken shall be
discharged on parole till exchanged.
Scarcely had that, cartel been signed’
when the military authorities of the United
States commenced a practice, changing
the character of the war from such as be
comes civilized nations into a campaign
of indiscriminate robbery and mur
der.
The General Order issued by tbe Sec-
etary of War of the United States, in
the city of Washington, on the very day
that the cartel was signed in Virginia, di
rects the military commanders of the Uni
ted States to take the private property of
our people for the convenience and use of
their armies without compensation; the
General Order issued by Maj. Gen- Pope,
on the 23d of July, the day after the sign-
of the cartel, directs the murder of our
peaceful inhabitants, as spies, found quiet
ly tilling their farms in his rear, and even
outside of his lines; and one of his Briga
dier Generals, Steinwehr, has seized upon
innocent and peaceful inhabitants to be
held as hostages, to the end that they may
be murdered in cold blood if any of his
[ soldieis are killed by some unknown per
sons whom he designates as “bushwhack
ers.”
Under this state of facts, this Govern
ment has issued the enclosed General or
der (No. 54) recognizing Gen. Pope and
his commissioned officers to be in tbe posi
tion which they have chosen for themselves
that of robbers and murderers and not
that of public enemies entitled, if captur
ed, to be considered as prisoners of war.
We find ourselves driven by ou» enemies
by steady progress towards a practice
which w-e abhor, and which we are vainly
striving to avoid. Some of the military au
thorities of the Unitod States seem to sup
pose that better success will at:end a sav
age war in wriiich no quarter is to be given
and no age or sex to be spared, than has
hitherto been secured by such Hostilities
as are recognized to be lawful by civilized
man in modern times.
For tbe present we renounce our right
of retaliation on the innocent, and shall
continue to treat the private enlisted sol
diers in Gen. Pope’s army as prisoners of
war. But if after notice to the Govern
ment at Washington of our confining our
tepressive measures to the punishment on
ly, of the commissioned officers who are
willing participants in these crimes,
these savage practises are contin
ued, we shall be reluctantly forced to the
last resort of accepting the war on tbe
terms chosen by our foes, until the out
rage of a common humanity forces a re-
pect for the recognized rules of war.
While thesefacts would justify onr reso
lution to rescind the generous cartel by
which we have consented to liberate an
excess of thousands of prisoners held by
us beyond the number held by the enemy,
a sacred regard to plighted faith, shrinking
from the mere semblance of breaking a
promise, prevents our resort to this ex
tremity, nor do we desire to extend to any
other forces of the enemy the punishment
merited alone by Gen. Pope and such
commissioned officers as chose to partici
pate in the execution of liis infamous or
ders.
You are therefore instructed to commun
icate to tlie Commander in Chief of the
army of the United States the contents of
this letter, and a copy of the enclosed
General Order, to the eud that he may be
notified of our intention not to consider
any officers hereafter captured from Gen.
Pope’s army as prisoners of war.
Very respectfully, yours, &c.,
(Signed) Jefferson Davis
To Gen. R. E. Lee, Commanding, &c„
WesPern & Atlantic
(State) Railroad.
Atlanta lo Chattanooga, J38 Miles, Fare $6 00
JOHN S. ROWLAND. Suit.
Passenger Train.
Leave Atlanta at 7 30 P. M;
Arrive at Chattanooga at 4 57 A. M.
Leave Atlanta at 4 00 A. M.
Arrive at Chattanooga at 5 15 P. M.
Accommodation Passenger Train.
Leave Atlanta 2 40 P. M,
Arrive at Kingston 6 57 P. M.
Leave Kingston 4 30 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta 8 45 A.M.
This Road connects each way with the Rome
Branch Railroad at Kingston, the East Tennessee
& Georgia Railroad at Dalton, and the Nashville
& Chattanooga Railroad at Chattanooga.
July 29, 1862. 10 «-