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BY JAMES GARDNER.
From the Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche. Feb. 11.
LATER FROM PARIS-MOVEMENTS OF THE
ENEMY—MEMPHIS AND OHIO RAILROAD
• We have a variety of reports frointParis, Tenn.,
but there is much difficulty in sifting the reliable
from the unreliable. We subjoin the following
extract of a letter frern an intelligent gentleman
at Paris on Saturday night, at ten o’clock. He
says'.
The latest re; orts we have from the Federate
places them this side of Eagle Creek, about fifteen
miles from here, with a force between 8,000 and
10,000 strong. JWe do not believe the report,
from the fact that but five transport boats came
up the river Wednesday night, and they could
not bring that number.] Eighteen hundred Con*
federate cavalry are reported to be within a mile
and a half of town now. If the Lincolnites come
this way they will have a light, sure!
LATER.
Col. King, with five battalions of cavalry—
from three to five hundred strong—had just ar
rived, and from the well known reputation of its
commander, we rely upon a stout resistance be
fore the Feds can get possession of Paris, and
thence on their way to Memphis.
A number of our citizens left last night on the
Memphis train. They are in your city ere this.
Another letter from Paris, written on Sunday,
says :
, Scouts came in to Pans on Saturday, at 2P.
M., and reported all quiet on this side of the Ten
nessee river, but that they were fighting at
Fort Donelson. I give you ibis for what it is
worth.
There are about fifteen hundred cavalry at Pa*
ris. They are well armed, clothed, and with
good stock, and withal, in excellent health, and
very eager to try their steel with the Federate.
Tennessee river bridge is not burnt or damag
ed. The Federate say they do not want to destroy
it.
We have a report to-night that our troops from
Columbus have captured Paducah to»day, and all
strongly hope it is so.
I cannot retrain from mentioning the gallant
conduct of Capt. Stocks, of the Rebel Rangers, a
company of cavalry raised in this county. He
was ordered to stay at Camp Beauregard, with
bis command, wh”le strangers came here to fight
our battles- He told his commander that his com
mand was raised in this county, that they all had
wives, or mothers, or sisters here, and that here
they should come to protect their relations, and
he is here to-night. We all know that they will
stand byH enry county to the last. M.
A gentleman »ho was at Tennessee river bridge
on Sunday afternoon, at 3 o’clock, had a talk with
some of the Federal officers, and learned the fol
lowing facts:
There were‘captured at the fort one General,
two Captains, two Lieutenants, and a number of
privates, making a total of B’J. Twenty-two dead
bodies were counted in the fcrt. In the engage™
ment one gnn-boat had a steam-pipe broken and
one man killed. The Federate have garrisoned
the fort, and three gunsboats and one transport
had gone up the river in pursuit of our boats.
The Federal cavalry say they captured about 250
Confederates at night in the vicinity of the fort.
There are about two hundred and fifty Federal
troops at the Tennessee river bridge, with a small
stern wheel transport boat, loading hides and such
other things as they can pick up. The bridge is
safe and in good order. The troops were fine
looking, well clothed men, from Southern Illinois.
On Sunday, a railroad man was caught by the
Federate and searched. On his person they found
nothing but a Time table, which they returned,
saying that in two weeks time they would have use
for him and his table besides.
The latest information from the Tennessee river
bridge via Pans, is, that the Federate had not
passed the bridge on their return from reconnoi
tering up Tennessee river.
The Federate have abandoned Fort Henry,
which is inundated and caving in on both sides,
and are now fortifying at 2\ngelo, opposite Fort
Henry.
There is scarcely any force at the Tennessee
river bridge, and it seems to us if it is the inten
tion of the “powers that be” to cut off the return
of the Federal gunboats, and to capture them,
they will never have another more favorable op
portunity.
The Federate have already promised to take the
Memphi and Ohio railroad in two weeks. They
already hold the bridge, which constitutes such a
powerful defence of all other roads in this section;
and if it is the purpose to re,capture it, and to
prevent the advance on Memphis by the Ohio
road, it is not the part of sound policy to wa.t till
the enemy is ready before we make opposing de
monstrations here.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE SNUBBING
OF THE YANKEES u.T THE FRENCH
COURT.
We get the following delicious morceau from
the Paris corresnondent (January 20) of the New
York Herald:
The difficulty which I mentioned last week in
relation to the number and “quality” of the
Americans who were to have the honor of being
presented to their Majesties the Emperor and
Empress, this winter, has been removed, but re
moved after the accomplishment of what he was
desirous of doing—on the part of M. Thouvenel
the material reduction of the nupiber of presen
tees The fact of the matter is, that the facility
with-which Americans here have been able to
obtain the entree to court has been grossly abused,
and there have, on several occasions, been more
Americans presented on a single evening than
the citizens of all other nations combined. So
much tor the quantity. As for the “quality,”
with our democratic ideas, it may seem perfectly
proper that no distinction should be made be
j, tween American citizens ; but some facts have
been brought to the attention of the Master of
Ceremonies, and reached the Emperor himself,
which do not strike Mm and the Court as “exactly
the thing.” For example, two years ago an
American came to Paris with some horses to sell,
and which he finally did sell to the Emperor him
seif, having bad an interview with him for that
purpose, and in the cauacity— qnalite— of a horse
dealer.
So far so good. But the Emperor had learned
that the next evening the same individual was
presented to him at the Tuilleries, and mingled
at the ball among the aristocracy of Europe.
Two or three other cases of a similar nature are
reported, and the result bis been the letter which
M. Tbonvenal has sent to Mr. Dayton, requiring
the “quality, title and social position of the per
sons whose names he transmits for presentation.”
I learn that the Minister and the Duke de Cam
beceres, Grund Master of Ceremonies, have had a
personal interview upon the subject, and that an
understanding has been arrived at, that the list
shall be hereafter materially curtailed, and that
those who compose it shall be at least persons of
social position. The latter requisition will make
the duties of the American Minister in this mat
ter not particularly agreeable, nor will his fulfil
ment of them have a terfdency to make him popu
lar among those of his countrymen who have no
titles, and no “social position” to speak of. I
would advise every American coming abroad
hereafter, to be dubbed, or to dub himself, "Colo
nel at least, as with that title and a fair share of
impudence, he will have no difficulty in going to
Court. The second ball of the season takes place
on Wcdn sday evening, when the majority of
those who were not permitted to go to the first
one will, doubtless, have an opportunity of exhib
iting themselves in the imperial presence.
£*7" The Charleston papers, of Feb. 15th re
port that the Federalists’ bad sunk another old
hulk near the Rattlesnake Shoals.
Foisonko Quinine. —It is well known that qui
nine, being very scarce, has risen to a very high
price, and the price has tempted enterprising per
sons to smuggle it into the Confederacy. Suspte
cions have risen more than once that deadly in*
gradients bad been put into quinine, it was sus
pected, by enemies, for the basest purposes. We
nave positive evidence at this moment that such
is the case. A few days ago a party, whose char
acter is above suspicion, called upon one ot our
principal druggists and offered him a large quanti*
ty of quinine and morphine for sale, frankly ex a
plaining how he got it and where it come roe..
A slight examination convinced the druggist that
there were grave reasons for suspicion, and be
advised the bolder of the drugs to have them
analized. They were taken to a professor of
chemistry ip the city, oue ot the most competent
men in the South, and package by package was
submitted to the process. The resu.t was that a
portion of the packages turned out to b- quinine
of excellent qua'ity; another portion was moi phine,
also of excellent quality; others were quinine mixed
with morphine in such a degree as to rendei the
whole poisonous if given in quinine doses; other
packages had quinine with a slight admixture «f
morphine, not sufficient to be poisonous, and there
were others that had quinine, morphine, and
strychnine, together with various impurities; these
latter were of course deadly poisons. W e give
these facts not on hearsay, but from our own in'-
quiries of parties concerned. The question arises
—is this the single and only lot ot these fatal
mixtures that has been brought South ? If any
other than a competent and skillful druggist had
seen these packages, we might be having myste
rious cases of diseases happening among us this
moment. We therefore warn all medical purvey
ors and apothecaries to examine strict iy whether
quinine offered tuem for sale is put up in the
usual manner, and bears the ordinary trade mark,
and in case of the least doubt to have recourse to
analysis. We also warn persons buying quinine,
and we may properly include other important
medicines, to go for theirdrugs only to regular and
skilful apothecaries, and buy of no peddlers, gro
ceries, or even of apothecaries unless skilled in
their profession.- Memphis Appeal.
Movements of the Enemy.—We learn from a
gentlemen, who arrived in this city last night
from Clarksville, that it was reported in that place
yesterday that the Federalists had landed in heavy
force below Fort Donelson, on the Cumberland
river, and that reinforcements were marching to
them from Fort Henry, having first destroyed the
railroad bridge over the Tennessee. It was further
reported that they were erecting batteries on the
shore, and that nine of our pickets were killed
yesterday morning within five miles ot the fort.
The number ot gunboats in the Cumberland is
believed to be between twenty-five and thirty,
whilst the force on shore is estimated as high as
forty thousand. If there be no mistake in these
reports, we may reasonably expect stirring events
at or near Fort Donelson before the close of the
week.
Os course the Confederate Generals are not idle.
They are using < very exertion to make themselves
masters of the situation, and .we may rest assured
they will do all that men can do to secure a bril
liant triumph. We hear much about what they
have done and are doing, but do not feel at liberty
to print it.— Nashville Patriot.
New Sewing Machine.—We have been shown
the patent granted by the Department at Rich
mond to Dr. W. B. Martin, of this place, for a
Sewing Machine of which he is the inventor. The
model of the Machine passed the inspection of the
best mechanics that this country can boast, and
all, without an exception, pronounced it the most
complete for the purpose for which it is designed
that has yet been placed before the public. It
possesses all the good points of the machine now
in use, but none of their objectionable ones, while
it has also some new and very valuable features
peculiar to itself. It doesail kinds of sewing with
ease and facility—the threadle is so arranged that
start it as you will, it goes as it should—the thread
never tangles—it sews equally welt forward and
backward, so that the work never has to betuined
—the work passes parallel with the operator, to
the right or left, as she may choose—in short, the
machine iS a perfect whole. We hope soon to
announce ihat it has been offered to the public.—
We predict rapid sale for it, when it does enter
the market.— Fayetteville (Tenn.) Observer, Jun. 16.
Washington’s Prayer.—ln the summer of 177,9,
Washington, exploring alono one day the position
of the British forces on the banks of the Hudson,
ventured too far from his own camp, and was'
compelled by a sudden storm, and the fatigue of
his horse, to seek shelter for the night in the cots
tage of a pious American peasant, who, greatly
struckjwith the language and manner of his guest,
and listening at the door of his chamber, overheard
the following prayer from the Father of his Coun
try :
“And now Almighty Father, if it is Thy holy
will that we shall obtain a place and name among
the nations of the earth, grant that we may be
enabled to show our gratitude for Thy goodness,
by our endeavor to fear and obey Thee. Bless us
with wisdom in our councils, success in battle, and
let all our Victorios be tempered with humanity.
Endow, also, our enemies with enlightened minds,
that they become sensible of their injustice, and
willing to restore our liberty and peace. Grant
the petition of thy servant, for the sake of Him
who thou hast called thy beloved Son; neverthe
less not my will but thine be done.— McGwire's
Religious Opinions and Character of Washington.
Mason and Slidell and their Antecedents.—
Relief for the Silk Weavers of Lyons.—We
get the following paragraph from the Paris cor
respondence (Jan. 19; of a Philadelphia paper:
A brief biographical sketch of Messrs. Mason
and Slidell was published a few days ago in the
London Post, and has been re published in a cur
tailed form by some of the Pans journals. The
fact of Mr. Mason having»been the author of the
Fugitive Slave Law suppressed, and
not a word is said about the connection of Mr.
Slidell with the various fillibustering expeditions
against Cuba, Nicarauga, etc., organized of late
years m the United States. These little omissions
will probably be pointed out to the Parisian pub
lic aoout the time Mr. Slidell asks an audience of
M. Thouvenal.
Subscriptions have been opened at some of the
Paris newspaper offices, in favor of the distressed
silk weavers of Lyons, thrown out of employment
in consequence of falling oft' in the trade with
America.
Americans in Paris, and the Royal Reception.
The Yankees are in high dudgeon because they
were not received by the Emperor of France at his
last reception. A Washington letter writer says:
Americans were very indignant at their practi
cal exclusion from presentation at the eourt ball
on the 9th ultimo. The account is confirmed by
the Pans correspondence of the National
gencer. It seems that it must also have met
with some official notice; for Senator Sumner to
day offered a resolution, which was adopted, call
ing upon the President for any official correspon
dence of recent date concerning a presentation of
Americans at the Court of France. It appears
that Mr. Dayton has made some representations
on the subject.
A Disaster Foretold —The correspondent of
the Charleston Mercur y says Gen. Wise, before he
left Richmond, said “he was going to Roanoke
Island as the shortest way to Fort Warren.” —
Fortunately for the General, he was confined to
his bed at Nag’s Head on the day of the fight,
and was saved the anticipated journey northward.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19, 1862.
WHOLESALE PLUNDERING IN LINCOLN
DOM-
GRAPHIC SKETCH OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE CON
TRACTORS.
The Civil Appropriation B-ll being up for dis
cussion befote the Lincoln Congress, Mr. Dawes,
of Massachusetts made a speeeti from which we
make an extract:
“There are eighty-three regiments of Cavalry
to-dav, one thousand strong. It takes two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to put one of these regi
ments on foot before it moves. Twenty million
of dollars have thus been expended on these
cavalry regiments before they left the encamp
ments where they were mustered into service, and
hundreds upon hundreds of these have been con
demned and sent back to Elmira, and to Annapo
lis, and to this city to spend the winter. Any
day hundreds of them can be seen round this city,
chained io trees, where they were left to starve to
death. Gungs of two hundred horses, in various
places have been thus left to die and rot till the
committees on the District of Columbia, have
called for a measure of legislation to protect the
chv from the danger to be apprehended from
these horse Golgothas.
Au i x Governor of one State offered to an ex-
Judge oi another State five thousand dollars to
get him permission to raise one of these regi
ments of cavalry, and when the ex-Judge b p pught
back the commission the ex-Govornor takes it to
his room at the h*tel, while another plunderer
sits at the key-bole watching like a mastiff
while he inside counts up forty thousand dollars
profit on the horses, and calculates twenty
thousand dollars more upon the accoutrements
and on the other details of fuinishipg these Tegu
ments. In addition to the arms in the hands of
the six hundred thousand soldiers in the field,
there are numerous outstanding contracts, made
with private individuate—not made upon adver
tisement, not made with the knowledge of the
public, but made by ex-members of Congress,
who know no more of the difference between one
class of arms and another than does a Methodist
minister. There are outstanding contracts for
the manufacture of Springfield the first
one of which cannot be delivered in six months
from this day. There is a contract for the supply
of one million and ninety thousand muskets at
twenty-eight dollars apiece, when the same quali
ty of muskets is manufactured at Springfield for
thirteen and a half apiece; and an ex-member of
Congress is now in Massachusetts, trying to get
machinery made by which he will be able
to manufacture, in some six months hence, at
twenty-one dollars apiece, those rifled muskets
manufactured to-day in that armory for thirteen
dollars and a half. Providence, before six
months, will dispose of this war, or he will dis»
pose of us.
Not one of these muskets thus contracted for
will be of the slightest service in this emergency,
or before Providence, whether for good or for
evil, will dispose of it. I ask my friends ftom
the North and Northwest how they expect to
benefit us by an armory at Chicago, at Rock Is
land and at Quincy, when a million and ninety
one thousand muskets will, according to this
contract, be thrown upon the country, and that
after the war is over, and at such an| enormous
price, in addition to other outstanding contracts
for the manufacture, some time hence, of two
hundred and seventy-two thousand Enfield rifles?
Besides these, there are seventy-five thousand five
hundred and forty-three sets of harness, to be
delivered by and at the cost of one million nine
hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred
and forty-six dollars.
I have not time toenamerate all these contracts,
when we appropriated, at the last session of Con
gress, for this purpose twenty millions of dollars,
thirty-seven millions and some thousand dollars
had been already pledged to contractoro—not for
the purchase of arms for the men in the field, nbt
to protect them in fighting.their country’s battles
iu this great emergency and peril, but for some
future'use, for some future occasion, or to meet
some present need of the contractors, I don’t
know which at this moment. And not only the
appropriation of the last session has been exhaus
ted, but seventeen millions put upon it. The not
of the 19th of April in Baltimore opened this ball,
ana on the 21st of April, in the city of New York,
there was organized a corps of plunderers of the
Treasury. Two millions of dollarsjjwere entrust
ed to a poor, unfortunate, honest, but entirely
incompetent editor of a paper in New York, to
dispense in the best manner he could. Straight
way this gentleman began to purchase linen pan
taloons, straw hats, London porter, dried herrings,
and such like provisions for the army, till he
expended in this way three hundred and ninety
thousand dollars of the money, and then got
scared and quit. [Laughter.J
There is an appropriation also for the supply
of wood to the army. The contractor is pledged
the pay of seven dollars’ a cord for all the wood
delivered to the different commands; wood col
lected after the labor of the soldiers themselves
bad cut down the tretk to clear the ground for
their batteries ; and then this contractor employs
the army wagons to draw it to the several camps
and he has no further trouble than to draw his
seven dollars a cord leaving the Government to
draw the wood. (Laughter.) It costs two mils
lions of dollars every day to support the army in
the field. A hundred millions ot dollars have
been thus expended since we met on the 22d in
repose. What the expenditure will increase to
when the great day shall arrive when our eyes
shall be gladdened with a sight of the army iu
motion, Ido not know. Another nundred mil
lions will go with the hundred more I have enus
merated. Another hundred millions may be added
to these before 'he 4th cd March. What it may
cost to put down the rebellion I cary very little,
provided, always, that it is put down effectually.
But sir, faith without works is dead, apd lam
free to confess that my faith sometimes fails me
—I mean my faith in men, not my faith in the
cause. When the history of these times shall be
written, it will be a question upon whom the
guilt will rest most heavily—upon him who has
conspired to destroy, or upon him who has proved
incompetent to preserve the institutions be
queathed to us by our fathers.
It is no wonder that the public Treasury trem.-
bles and staggers like a strong man with too great
a burden upon him. A strong man in an air
exhausted receiver is not more helpless to-day
than is the Treasury of the Government beneath
the exhausting process to which it is subjected.
The mighty monarch of the forest himself may
hold at bay the fiercest, mightest of his foes,
while the vile cur coming up behind, him, and
opening his fangs, gives him a fatal wound; and
although he may struggle on boldly and valiantly,
the lite blood is silently trickling from his heart,
and he is at last forced to lose his grasp, and he
grows faint and falters and dies. The Treasury
notes issued in the face of these immense outlays,
without a revenue from custom houses, from land
sales, from any source whatever, are beginning to
fall in the market; already have they begun to
fell at six per cent, discount at the tables of the
money-changers; at the very time, too, that we
here exhibit tbe singular spectacle of fraud, and
of a struggle with the Committee of Ways and
Means itself, in an endeavor to lift up and sustain
the Government of the country. Already the sut
ler—that curse of the camp—is following tbe pay
master, as tbe shark follows the ship, buying up
for four dollars every five of the wages of the
soldiers paid to them in Treasury notes.
I have no desire to hasten the movements of the
army, or to criticise the conduct of its leaders;
but in view of tbe stupendous drafts upon the
treasury, I must say that I long for the day ot
striking the blow which will bring this rebellion
to an end. Sixty days longer of this state of
things will bring about a result one way or
another. It is impossible that the treasury of tbe
United States can meet, and continue to meet,
this state of things sixty days longer; and an
igno ninicus peace must be submitted to, unless
we see to it that the credit of the country is sus
tained, and sustained, too, by the conviction going
forth from this hall to the people ot the country
that we will treat as traitors, not only those who
are bold and manly enough to meet us face to face
in the field of strife, but all those, also, who clan
destinely and stealthily suck the life-blood from
us in the mighty straggle.
Whatever measures may emanate from the Com
mittee of Ways and Means to meet and retrieve
this state of things, they will but fall like a dead
ball upon the public, unless they give the ass
suratice that these extraordinary and extreme
measures to resuscitate, revive and replenish
the treasury are not made to fill farther and
longer the already gorged pockets of the public
plunderers. How, then, are we to contribute in
this matter to revive public confidence in obr
public men here, if it be not when these appro
priations come up that we may probe them ; that
we ascertain whether there be anything in them
that at this moment can be spared. Our pressing
duty now is to protect and save the treasury from
further wholesale or bther system of plundering.
In conclusion, he argued against printing the
treasury notes on the ground that the contract
was improperly obtained.
[communicated.]
There appeared, through the columns of a
Georgia paper, a short time since, an advertise*
ment, which, if it came from a Georgian, has
mortified me deeply, and wounded my State pride
severely. A man desiring a substitute in these
perilous times, when the polluting steps of the
invader are felt upon our own soil—alnfost upon
our thresholds, and he pleading business as his
excuse, when the vandal hordes are threatening
the desolation of our firesides, and the total rum
of our once happy country! Can the men of
Georgia remain quietly at home, and plead busi
ness as their excuse ? What will their business
be worth to them if we are subjugated? What
satisfaction would the wealth of Crceesus afford,
it we should be borne down under the oppressive
yoke of Abolitionism ? But my object in replying
to the card above referred to is, to offer my ser
vice to the gen tieman,gratuitously, upon this con
dition : that be will accept my hoops. I have no
doubt but that they will be quite becoming. I
have the honor to belong to a “ Thimble Regi
ment,” which was mustered into service at the
commencement of the war; but 1 can procure an
honorable discharge, and if the gentleman desires
it, I can consign to him my thimble also, for,
probably, he can learn the use of that small in •
slrument, much sooner, and whield it more grace
fully tbau that es a sword.
Rosa Dumont, Geo.
Os course, we leave the advertiser to the tender
mercies of our fair correspondent; but we must
remind Miss Rosa Dumont that there are cases of
imperative necessity demanding the attention of
some men, and preventing them from joining the
army. But in times like these, when every man
is expected to do his duty, it is only in such cases
of imperative necessity that an excuse can be found
for any one who is able to bear arms, to remain at
home. Our country and liberty demand that
every sacrifice should be made for the defence of
one and the establishment of the other—and no
patriot will refuse to respond to these demands to
the utmost of his ability.
HOMERIC DESCRIPTION OF A CAT FIGHT-
The following poem, from the San Francisco
Golden Era, is not only Homeric in style, but
complete in itself, for it ends with a total annihi
lation of tbe combatants :
On a pine wood shed, in an alley dark, where
scattered moonbeams sifting through a row of
tottering chimneys, and an awning torn
drooping, fell, strede back and forth with stiff
and tense drawn muscles and peculiar tread, a
cat.
His name was Norval; on yonder neighboring
shed his father caught the rats that came in squads
from streets beyond Dupont, in search of food
and strange adventure.
Grim war he quoted ; and his twisted tail, and
spine upheaving in fanatastic curve, and claws
distended, and ears flatly pressed against a head
thrown defiantly, told of impending strife.
With eyes agleam and searching blasts of war
and step as silent as the falling dew, young Ner
val crept along the splintered edge, and gazed a
moment through the darkness down with a tail
awag triumphantly.
Then with au impression and a growl—perhaps
an oath in direct vengeance hissed—he started
back, and crooked in body like a letter S or rather
like a U inverted, stood in tierce expectancy.
’Twas well. With eye balls glaring and ears
aslant, an open mouth in which two rows ot fangs
stood forth in sharp and dread conformity slept
upon a post from out the dark below a head ap
peared.
A dreadful tocsin of internal strife young Nor
val uttered, then with face unblanched and tnous
che standing straight before his nose, and tail
flung wildly to the passing breeze, stepped back
in cautious invitation to the foe.
Approaching each other, and with preparations
dire, each cat surveyed the vantage of the field.
Around they walked with tails uplifted, and backs
high in air, while from that mouth, in accents
hissing with consuming rage, dropped brief but
awful sentences of hate.
Thrice around the roes they went in circle,
each with eye upon the top intently bent; the
sideways having as is wont with cats, gave one
long-drawn, territtie, savage yawn, and buckled
in.
The fur flew. A mist of hair hung o’er the bat
tlefield. High above the din of passing wagons
rose the dreadful tumult of the struggling, cats.
So gleamed their eyes in frenzy that to me, who
saw the conduct from a window near, nought else
was plain but fiery stars that moved in orbits meSt
eccentric.
An hour they struggled in tempestuous might,
then fainter and fainter grew the squad of war,
until all sound was hushed. Then went I with
lantern, and the field surveyed. What saw I ?
Six claws, one ear, of teeth perhaps a handful,
and save for naught else except a solitary tail.
The tail was Norval’s—by a ring I knew it. The
•ir was—but we’ll let the matter pass. The tail
will do without the ear.
Be Not Discouraged. —We advise our readers
to read tbe thirteenth and fourteenth Chapters of
the Seoond Book of Chronicles, in the Bible.
They will find in them food for reflection and en
couragement. It gives the history of a battle
between Abijah, King of Judah, and Jeroboam.
The former had 400,000 men, and the latter
800,000 men. The army of Jeroboam ambushed
the forces of Abijah, and attacked them in front
and rear. Abijah cried unto the Lord for help.
With a shout the followers of Abijah entered into
battle, and routed the enemy, slaying 500,000 oi
them. Asa, son of Abijah, went out with an army
of 500,000 men to give battle to Zezab, the Ethio
pian, with an army of one million, or s “thousand
thousand men and three hundred chariots,” as
the Scriptures have it. Asa cried unto the Lord,
and say—“ Lord, it is nothing with thee to help
whether with many, or with them that have no
power; help us, O Lord our God, for we rest on
thee ; and in thy name we go against this multi
tude. O Lord, thou art our God; let no man pre
vail against thee.” The Ethiopians were defeated
with great slaughter. Let tbe people of the Con
federate States profit by these examples. They
teach a salutary lesson.— Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
Feb l&th
VOL. 41,—N0. 8.
[communication.]
RESOLUTION OF THANKS.
At a meeting of the members of Company K.,
(Oglethorpe Rifles,) Sth Regiment of Georgia
Volunteers, held at Camp, near Centreville, Va.,
the 3d day of February, 1862, Captain Phinizy
was called to the Chair, and Lieut. Bowling ap
pointed Secretary,
The President* having explained the object of
the meeting, to be for the purpose of passing
suitable resolutions, expressing the thanks of the
Company to the ladies of Oglethorpe county, for
their past kindness to us, Lieuts. Bowling and '
Wright, arid Sergeants Davis and Harrison, were
appointed to draft resolutions. The President was
added to the Committee, which offered the fol*
lowing preamble and resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted :
Whereas, since, through the untiring efforts,
ceaseless energy, and indefatigable industry of the
ladieaof the “Falling Creek Soldiers’Aid Soci
ety,” our uniforms have been neatly and strongly
made, and have been sent to us as a donation—
tiesolved, That we, the members of Company
K., Bth Regiment ot Georgia Volunteers, do tender
to the above ladies our sincere thanks for their
ready zeal in our behalf, and our congratulations
at the able and efficient manner in which they
have carried out the noble purpose for which they
associated themselves together.
Resolved, That we assure the ladies of the
pleasure which we experience at the memory of
this, their generous self-denial, and this manifes
tation of their regard for our welfare and com<»
fort.- Joyous as these recollections are, yet prouder
will we feel, when, the foot prints ot the invader
erased from our soil, our Confederacy, for the
liberty of which we are now striving, recognized
by the world, we shall return home to greet those
who are dearer to us than the life which we
would cheerfully sacrifice in their defense.
Resolved, That we express to Mrs. H. C. Bugg,
the President of the Society, and to each of its
members, the many obligations which we feel for
their acceptable presents, made by the hands of
Georgia’s fair daughters, for Georgia's defenders.
They prove that the spirit which animated the
breast of Coriolanus is not extinguished, but
burns purer and brighter than ever did vestal
flame.
Resolved, That, these proceedings be forwarded
to the Augusta Constitutionalist and Chronicle &
Sentinel for publication.
Jacob Phinizy, President.
T. Jackson Bowling, Secretary.
[communicated.]
Mr. Editor :—ln reflecting on the events of the
past few weeks, and on our darkened, and still
darkening prospects, I am led seriously to enquire,
what cause, in ourselves, may exist in the appa
rent change in our affairs? No victories ot late
have crowned our arms, invads
ers are even now coming down upon us in over.,
whelming forces, and gaining advantages over us
at many points. Why is tnis? should be the
anxious enquiry of every patriot and Christian.
Why does that special Providence, which we have
so often congratulated ourselves was smiling upon
us, appearing for our help in every extremity, and
bringing deliverance often, as it appeared to us
almost miraculously, ;seem to smile less benig«
nantly on our cause now than in days gone by ?
A venerable minister remarked not long ago,
in one of the weekly Union Prayer Meetings, that
“ earnest, importunate prayer, was the only lever
to move the arm of the Lord of hosts to fight
our battles for us, and to drive back our powerful
foe from our borders.” But alas, we have no
Union Prayer-Meeting now; and many of us,
who made ft a matter of duty and privilege to
resort to the sacred place where prayer was wont
to be made, feel sad and heavy-hearted at each
recurrence of the oid appointed hour, when we
remember that, as a people, we have forsaken the
assembling ourselves together for the purpose of
invoking the divine blessing, and to pray tor
our noble, brave soldiers, exposed, as they are, to
temptation and death in every form.
I have thought on this subject much, and with
deep anxiety, and fear this restraining prayer in a
public capacity may be the reason ot the darken.-
ning of our prospects, and of those reverses which
are now filling our hearts with gloomy apprehens
sion. And now, Mr. Editor, as an humble member
of this community, whose influence is small in*
deed, but on the altar of whose heart burns the
tire of a pure patriotism, permit me, through the
medium of your paper, respectfully, yetearnestly,
to beg those whose prerogative it is to make relis
gious appointments, without delay, to reorganize
the weekly Union Prayer Meeting, and let all
those who have, on the tented fields of our country,
near and dear ones, for whose safety and welfare
their tenderest solicitude slumbers not day or
night, or who feel only a general interest in the
sa ired cause for which we are contending, attend
in full numbers upon these meetings every week—
aad thus infuse into them an interest and spirit,
which will not only encourage those who conduct
them, but render them truly edifying and profita
ble to all who attend, and insure, as we humbly
trust, a blessing on our righteous cause. O'.
[communicated.]
Camp Blanchard, )
Portsmouth, Va., Feb. 3d, 1661. j
At a meeting held by the Gardner Volunteers
this day, to take suitable action in relation to
tbe kindness of the ladies of Warren county
on motion, R. H. Armstrong was called to the
Chair, and M. H. Littleton, Secretary ; when the
following named gr-ntlemen were appointed to
draft resolutions! D. H. Montgomery, G. A. L.
Hath, W. E. Anderson, W. F. Shurley.
Resolved, That we, as a company, do most
heartily appreciate the very kind efforts of the
ladies of Warren county, for their generous kind
ness in preparing clothes, mattrasses, and other
comforts, such only as estimable ladies can pro
vide, and wo assure them that, though far away
upon the tented field, they ever live in our
warmest regards in a word; they are garnered in
our heart of hearts. And although the life of a
soldier is one of peril and privation, yet the re
membrance that the loved ones at home are toil.*,
ingtor us, sweetens the cup of physical suffering,
and energises our determination to do our duty as
soldiers, that we may be worthy to receive their
congratulations, if we ever return from the bat
tle held.
Resolved, That these resolutions be published
in the Constitutionalist, Augusta, Ga., and the
Georgia Clipper, of Warrenton, Ga.
R. H. Armstrong, Chairman.
M. H. Littleton, Secretary.
Money Matters.—The Herald, of the lllh,
says : “The decline in stocks was aggravated by
the receipt shortly after noon, of the Amer ca’s
news, which foreshadows a probability of an
early interference by France in our civil war, and
the market looked very gloomy in the afternoon.
The average decline was on the speculative
list.”
The H-rald, of the 12th, says : “Exchange is
held firmly by the leading drawers at 115, and
we hear ot business at 114%a% for sterling, and
4.92% for francs. Gold rose to 4a4% per cent,
with large sales at the lower figure.
Norfolk Hay Book, Feb, 14.
Special Dispatch to the Nashville Union and;American.
Corinth, Miss., Feb. 11.— AU is quiet here.
There are no gunboats on the Upper Tennessee.
The trains make regular connections.
Private Dispatch to R. C. Foster, Sr., Esq.
Clarksville, Feb. 11.—Fort Donelson has not
been attacked. Tbe pickets at Fort Henry were
driven in by Colonel Forrest. Breashaw captured
a Dutch Colonel. Gens. Floyd and Buckner are
here with their brigades and heavy batteries. We
feel safe. , Cave Johnston.
Nashville (Tenn,) Union and American.