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®l)c Wccldn (Constitutionalist
BY JAMES GARDNER.
PUBLIC INFORMATION.
We bars already published the first class <*t
exempts under Act es Congress, April 21, 18t*l. j
The following completes the list. Those wish
ing substitutes will take notice
11. Bv the above act of Congress the following '
classes of pen ons are exempt from enrollment,
for military service : , '
• Justices of the peace, sheriffs, and depnj
sheriffs clerks and deputy clerks, allowed by law
masters and commissioners tn chancery ; Uistrici
and State attorneys; attorney g 8“ e I r *’>
:e»s, and deputy postmisters, and aierks allowed (
bv law; commissioners of revenue and foreign* : s ,
who have not acquired in the Confederate (
States.-
111. The-fo’lowing are not exempt:
i Militia officers not in actual service ; persons ■
exempt bv State laws, but not by the above act-; ■
-v reigners who have acquired domicil in the j
Confederate States. *
’ IV. No persons mber than those expressly ;
named or properly implied in the above act can
be exempted, except by furnisbing.a substitute,
exempt from military service, in conformity
with regulations already published (General
Orders, No. 29) and such exemption is valid
only so long as the said substitute is legally exs .
Persons who have furnished substitutes
will receive their certificates of exemption from ]
the captains of companies, or the commandants !
of camps, bv whom the substitutes have been ac- '
cepted Other certificates of exemption will be ,
granted by the enrolling officers only, who wi i '
receive full instructions in regard io the condi- |
tionsand mode of exemption. Applications ;
for exemption cannot therefore, be considered j
by the War Department.
Bv command of the Sec eiary of War.
S. Cooper,
Adjutant and Inspector-General.
The following are the regulations concerning
substitutes, above refvred to :
Gsnbral Orders, No. 29.
1. The following regulations concerning sub
gutntes in thearmv are published by direction of
the Secretary of War :
1. Any non-commissioned officer or so.dier ■
not indebted to the government, who wishes to I
procure a substitute, may obtain from his «»p* >
lain a permit for the proposed substitute to re- i
port himself at the camp of the company for *
examination ; and such permit shall operate as .
a passport, but shall not entitle the holder to I
transportation at the expense of the govern- i
scent.
2. If the substitute be exempt frain military j
duty, and on examination by a surgeon or as* -
r. surgeon of the army, be pronounced ;
sound and m all respects fit for military service,
he shall be enrolled and mustered info service
for taree years, unless the war sooner terminate;
tmd the non-commissioned officer or soldier pros
curing him shall thereupon be discharged, but
eealt nat be entitled to transportation at the ex
pense of the government.
8. If a non commissioned effioer or soldier
•discharged by reason of a substitute be indebted
io the government, the officer granting .the dis
charge shall be liable ter the debt.
4. AU pav and allowances due to the non-com
missioned officer or soldier discharged shall go to
the substitute at the next pay day.
5. Substitution shall not exceed one per month
in each company, and shall be noted in the next
morning report, muster rail, and monthly re*
• font
il. When any liable to militaay duty
under the act of (rongressjfcut not mustered ina
te service in any company, desires to faraish a
substitute, he sisal! report himself wi.h the sub
stitute to the commandant- of a camp of inst ne
tioc for recruits raised under the said act; and if
the substitute be lawfully exempt from military
duty, and on examination by a surgeon or assis
tant surgeon be pronc-uneed sound and t* al! re*
♦pects fit for military service, he may be ac-.
cepted and enrolled, and the person furnishing
scch substitute may be discharged by the eom
mandant us the camp ; but no substitute shall be
entitled to transportation er other allowance at
the expense of the government until so a-ecepted
acd enrolled.
FROM CORINTH.
F. W. A., the Army Correspondent of the Sa
vannah Republican, in his letter of May 17th,
says that the weather there has become very dry;
that the country has become very dusty, and
water is getting scarce. Gen. Beauregard has
ordered the boring of several wells, w hich, it is
bwlieved, will afford an inexhaustible supply of
water. We quote the conclusion of the letter,
for the interesting explanation of a flag of truce
winch it contains :
Sixty-one Federal prisoners were paroled and
sent to Gen. Halleck under a flag of truce two
days ago, and one hundred and nine yesterday.
The party encountered the enemy’s pickets four
miles from town on the Monterey road. Per
haps some account of a flag of truce between two
armies would not prove uninteresting to some of
your readers.
When the commanders of opposing armies de
sire to communicate with each other, either for
an exchange of prisoners, the burying of the dead,
or the safe passage es non-combatants through
their lines, or for any other purpose, it can be
■only done under a flag of truce. The party bean
, ng the flog way consist of ten or fifty men, as
the case may be, who are usually mounted. If
the object be to convey a written communication,
a small party only is sent with it. If it be to
conduct prisoners through the lines, then the
number of the escort or guard depends upon the
number of prisoners to be delivered. The par
tv is always accompanied by an officer, whose
duty it is to deliver the letter or turn over the
prisoners under Lis charge.
Having passed beyond their own lines, the party
proceeded in the following order :
First-comes a man on horseback, with a white
flag in his hand, which be continues to wave, in
order to attract the attention of the enemy’s
pickets and prevent them from tiring upon him
through mistake. By his side is another man,
also mounted, who is provided with a bugle or
trumpet which be continues»to blow incessantly.
This is called “sounding a parley.” The object
is to notify the adversary of your approach, and
c’ your desire to communicate with him—liter
acy, te *aik with him. Next follow the officer,
bearing the dispatch, and the escort, some fifty
ar sixty paces in the rear of the flag. When
the party have reached the lines of the other
s. they are halted until word can be
en ’ * orwar u to the officer in command of the
forces at that point, or they are conducted to
ms headquarters. Arrived there the object
. ,<ie visit is explained, and the letter or
prisoners de. ivered. /f f} l€ business be such
.-.at only the c.>maaiuder-in chief-can attend -to
ben tne communication is forwarded imine*
—ateiy to him, who either rt turns an answer at
E rH? P i < ’ n r „ P ,7's nae j to do 80 a ’ an early period.
■»> u 1 pendenc J Ibe negotiations' and
' " J o ceiißar| ly consumed in going and
tPiTit/’a h f Vu^ ,S V e “ POrary Ce8 ‘ ,ation of hos '
ti.i.ies—a truce—between the party beating the
flag unde-wfoc P blh ng f ° rC€S ' the
is called a flag of is X"7 «« ndu ? l « d
iy improper for either party to vantage of
this necessary intercourse to examine the w2rks
of the other, or lo pry into his condition o so
receive secret Intelligence from any of his dis?
effected troops, or so approach them with cor
rupt propositions.
i letter FROM commodore tattnal.
•
TUK DEST.IVCTION OF THE VIRGINIA.
The following is a copy of a letter addressed I
bv Commodore Tattnal to Secretary Mallory :
Richmond, Va., May 14. 18*12.
Sir: In detailing to you the circumstances
which caused the destruction of theC. S. steamer
“Virginia” and her movements a few days pres
vious to that event, I begin with your telegraph*
ic dispatches to me on the 4th and sth inst., di
recting me to lake such a position in the James
river us would entirely prevent the enemy’s as
cend! sg it. .. r ~
General Hugar, commanding at Norfolk, on
learning that 1 had received this order, calling on
me and declared*thatats execution would oblige
him to immediately, his Forts on
“Craney Island”' , Rnd ’‘Sewell’s Point” and their
guns to the enemy. I informed him, that, as the
order was imperative, 1 must execute it, but
suggested that be should telegraph vou and state
the consequences. He did so, and on the tiih
mat., you telegraphed me to endeavor to afford
protection to Norfolk as well as James jiver,
which replaced me in my original position, I
then arranged with the General that be should
notify me when his preparations for the evacua
tion of Norfolk were sufficiently advanced to en»
‘ able me to act independently.
On the7th instant, Commodore Hollins reached
Norfolk with orders from vou to consult with me
‘ and such officers as I might select in regard to
tne best disposition to made of the V rginia un
der the present aspect ot things.
We had arranged the Cent. .ence lor the next
dIV the Bth, baton mat uny, before the hour
appointed, the enemy attacked lhe Sewell’s Point
buttery, and I ieft immediately with the Virginia
to defend it. • < • •-
We found six of the enemy's vessels, including
the iron clad steamers, Monitor and Naugatuck,
shelling the battery. We passed the battery
and stood directly for the enemy, for the pur
pose of engaging him, and I thought an action
certain, purticutarly as the Minnesota and VAn
derbilt, which were anchored below Fortress
Monroe, got under way and stood ap to that
point, apparently with the intention of joining
their squadron in the Roads. Before, however,
we got within gun shot, the enemy ceased tiring
and retired with all speed under the protection
of the Fortress, followed by the Virginia, until
the shells from the Rip Raps passed over B.tr.
The “Virginia” was then placed at her moor*
1 ingsnear Sewell’s Point, and I returned to Nor*
' iolk to tola the Conference refer red to.
It was held on the 9th, and the officers present
were Colonel Anderson and Captain , of
the Army, selected by General Huger, who was
too unwell to attend himself, and, of the Navy,
myself, Commodore Hollins, Captains Sterrett i
and Lee, Commander Richard L. Page and Lieu- j
tenants Ap. Catesby Jones, and J. Pembroke;
Jones. • •
The opinion was unanimous that the Virginia i
was then employed to the best advantage, and,
that she could continue, for the present, to pro
tect Norfolk and thus afford time to remove the
public property.
Oa the next day, at ten o’clock A. M. we ob*
served from the Virginia that the flag was not fly
ing on the Sewell’s Point Battery, and that it ap
peared to have been abandoned. I despatched
Lieut. J. P. Jones,the Flag Lieutenant, to Craney
Island, where the Confederate fisg was still fiy.ng,
’ and he there learned that a large forced theene
! my bad landed on the Bay shore, and were march
! ing rapidly on Norfolk, that the Sewtil’s Point
i Battery was abandoned, and our troops were re
treating.' 1 then dispatched the same officer to
Norfolk, to confer with General Huger and Capt.
Lee. He found the Navy Yard in flames, and,
that all its officers had left by Railroad. Oa reach
ing Norfolk he found that General Huger and all
the other officers of the army, had also left, that
the enemy were within half a mile of Jhe city,
and that the Mayer was treating for its surren
der.
On returning to the ship, he found that Craney
Island and all the other batteries on tbe river
had been abandoned.
It was now seven o’clock in the evening, and
this unexpected information rendered prompt
measures necessary for the safety of iue Virginia.
The pilots had assured me that they could take
tbe ship, with a draft of eighteen feet", to witbin
forty miles of Richmond.
This, the Chief Pilot, Mr. Parrish, and his
Chief Assistant, Mr. Wright, had asserted, again
and again, and, on the afternoon of the 7th, in
' my cabin, m the presence of Commodore Hollins
and Captain Sterrett, in reply to a question of
mine, they both emphatically declared their
i ability to do so.
I Confiding in these assurances, and, after con-
I suiting with tbe First and Flag Lieutenants, and
> learning that the officers, generally, thought it
the most judicious course, I determined to lighten
the ship at once, and run up the nver, for the
protection of Richmond.
All hands having been called on deck, I stated
to them tbe condition of things, and my hope
that, by getting'lip the river before the enemy
could be made aware of our design, we might
capture his vessels whicn had ascended it, and
render efficient aid in the defense of Richmond,
but that, to effect tbi*, would require all their
energy in lightening the ship. They replied with
three cheers, and went to work at once.
The pilons were on deck, and heard this address
to the crew.
Being quite unwell, I had retired to bed. Be
tween ene and two o’clock in the morning, lhe
First Lieutenant reported to me that, after tbe
crew had worked for five or six hours, and lifted
the ship, so as to render her unfit for action, the
pilots had dec ared their inability to carry eighteen
feet above tbe Jamestown Flats, up to which
point the shore, on each side, was occupied by
tbe enemy.
i Ou demanding from the chief pilot, Mr. Parrish,
' an explanation of this palpable deception, he re
plied that eighteen feet could net be carried after
tbe prevalence of Easterly winds, and that the
wind for the last two days bad been Westerly.
I had no time to lose. Tbe ship was not in a
condition for battle, even with an enemy of equal
force and their force was overwhelming, I, there
fore, determined with the concurrence of the First
and F-sg Lieutenants, to save tbe crew for future
aervice, by landing them at Craney Island, the
only road for retreat open to us, and to destroy
tha ship to prevent her falling into the hands of
the enemy. I may add, that although not formal
ly consulted, the course was approved by every
commissioned officer in the ship.
There is no dissenting opinion. The ship was
accordingly put on shore as near the main-land
in the vicinity of Craney Island as possible and
the crew landed, she was then fired, and after
burning fiercely fore and aft for upwards of an
hour, blew up a little before five on the morning
of the 11th.
We marched for Suffolk, twenty-two miles,
and reached it in the evening, and from thence
came by Railroad to this city.
It will be asked what motives the pilots could
have bad to deceive me. The only imaginable
one is, that they iwished to avoid going into
battle. £: •'
Had the ship noCbeen lifted, so as to render her
unfit for action, a desperate contest must have
ensued with a force against us too great to justify
much hope of success, and, as battle is not their
occupation they adopted this deceitful course to
avoid it. i cannot imagine another motive, for 1 ■
bad seen no reason to distrust their good faitb to !
the Confederacy.
My acknowledgements are due to tbe First |
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1862.
i lieutenant, Ap- Catesby .Lines, for his untiring
1 exertions, and for the aid he rendered tne in all
I things The detail for firing the ship and lan-.
I ding t’he crew were left to h-m and everything
i wa.- conducted -with the most perfect order.
I To the other officers of the shin, generally, I
am also ihebkaful lor the g-rn'lzoal they displayed
throughout.
Tbe “Virginia” no longer exists, but three
hundred byave and skillful officers and seamen
are saved to the Confederacy.
I presume that a court < f inquiriry will be or
dered to examine into ai! the cirwmstances I
have narrated, and I earnestly soliu.t it. Public
opinion will rever be put right without it.
lan sir. w L; great respect,
Your obedient servant,
(S'gned) Jostah Tatnall,
Flag Vfficw'Cotnmandmg.
Hon. 3. R. Mallory, Secretary of tbe Navy.
Fromtfi; Jtlacon t'Ja-l Moy 22.
COTTON PLANTERS’ CONVENTION.
Ambbicus, May 13, 1862.
Agreeable to previous adjournment, the Cot.ton
Planters’ Convention met in the Court House.
The President read tbe Constitution and Rules,
when several gentlemen came forward and
registered their names as members ot the Con
vention.
The Secretary being absent, on motion of Mr.
Isaac C. West, Francis A. Hill, Esq., was request
ed to act as Secretary.
x.The President presented and read his eommu*
nication.
To the members of tbe Convention :
tfenfZmwn: No organization, having similar
objects for its accomplishment, ever entered up
on’its career with brighter prospects as useful
ness than ditf yours ; and bo organization ever
had before it a more bril.iant and inviting future.
But the devastating war in which the country is
engaged, for the present suspends our operations
It is too true that from the beginning we had
enemies, some open and avowed, othes secret
and concealed; and notwithstanding our enemies
have made us feel the force of their opposition,
our progress has been onward We have clearly
and unmistakably demonstrated that public spir
ited disinterestedness ever neutralizes, if it doe®
not. annihilate, individual selfishness.
Compelled, as we are, mamiy to suspend our
operations, we must wait patiently until more
favorable circumstances will allow us to proceed.
In the meantime, we should reflect as much as
possib.e upou the highly interesting and benefi
cial objects of our association, so that when the
period of active operations returns we may be
tne more competent to mature our plans and nur
sue our purposes.
The subject of direct trade with foreign coun
tries is no longer open and debatable, for all
admit not only its propriety, but its necessity,
j It would be improper for me, here, to add any
; thing to what I have heretofore safd upon this
i subject, further than to say, that in my judgment,
direct trade and free trade are inseparably con*
I nected. And would the present or prospective
1 condition of the country allow it, I should cer*
I tainly urge upon the eons’deration of the Con
| vention toe question of free trade. Bui the war
! will fix upon the country so large a debt, that a
■ tariff ot duties upon imports will perhaps be the
most practicable expedient that the government
can suggest for its exting» : -hment. Be this as
it may, the probability now that the adoption
of tbe free trade policy must be indefinitely post
poned. Other and more favorable circumstances,
perhaps far in tbe future, must transpire before
tae time for the adoption i f this policy will have
irrived.
There is not now, nor will there probably soon
be, in the commercial world so interesting a
, question as tbe successful laying of a telegraph
■ cable across the Atlantic. The effort heretofore
I made for the accomplishment of this great and
i very desirable object has for various reasons,
, some avoidable, otners insuperable, been unsuc-
■ cessful. Without entering into an examination
of these reasons, 1 declare it as my judgment,
• after having been on the ground, that it is im*
• possible there to succeed. Notwithstanding,
England, fully alive to tbe importance of this
I work, and grasping as she is after all commercial
and other advantages, *s now preparing, it is
. said, to make another effort; and with her usual
i selfishness, asks no other government or interest
(and, perhaps, would allow no other government
or interest) to participate in it, determined as she
; is, if successful, to have it under her control. 1
conceive and submit that an enterprise of this
l kind and magnitude should be purely commer
i ciai, and be the property of the commercial tn*
terest. Ail governments engaged in tbe world’s
• commerce should have a corresponding interest
in this mode of communication—it should not
be effected by war or other contingency. But if
England should succeed, the work will be to her
exclusively a mode of communication, military
as well as commercial. Success in ibis under
taking will tend to increase the haughtiness of tbe
mest imperious government of modern times.
Impressed witn the importance of this work,
and the impracticability es its performanec from
Cape Race to Cape Ciear. tbe mind naturallv
turns to the inquiry, whether there is not some
other way across the ocean where this work can
be performed? Or, whetner tbe conception be
not altogether impracticable? 1 confess myself
to be of the number who believe the work prac
ticable. So believing, on the4iti day of October,
18IW, 1 opened a correspondence with Commands
er Maury, of the 'Washington Observatory, the
best authority in nautical matters known to tbe
world, suggesting the practicability of a route
from Europe along the coast of Africa, thence to
Brazil, thence to the United States. To this
suggestion, on the 15th day of October, 1860,
Commander Maury made a tavorable and flatter
ing answer, from which I submit this extract:
“The route you propose for a telegraph between
the old world and the new, is not without strong
advocates on the other side. You will be grati
fied to learn that you are not alone in your opin
icn as to tbe advantages of your route. Tbe idea
was broached pending the famous Atlantic Tel
egraph, that tbe best route would be from jlng
land via Spain and Portugal, thence to Madeira,
thence to Cape Verd Islands, thence to thePen
edo de San Pedro, thence to’Brazil, and over
land to the Cuayamas, thence along the wind
ward and leeward Islands and Cuba, to the Unit
ed States.
“Practically, though, nothing has been done
for this route, and it would be very desirable to
have it ‘sounded out.’ I should be most happy
to encourage, in my humble way, tbe fitting out
of a vessel for that purpose.”
Upon the reception of the letter from Com-'
mander Maury, 1 immediately wrote to Hon,
Alfred Iverson, then a member of the United
States Senate, requesting him to submit to the
consideration of the Secretary of tbe Navy, the
propriety of detailing and furnishing, under the
direction of Commander Maury, a suitable ves-;
sei for tbe purpose of “sounding out” the pro
posed route. The alacrity evinced by Judge
foerson, in this business, convinced me, at once,
of the deep interest he felt in it,and had things
continued as they then were, it is probable that
what remains to be ascertained, concerning the
proposed route, would long ago have been known.
But the troubles in which the country is now
involved were so rapidly assuming their pres
ent aspect, that al) questions of this kind, were,
necessarily, postponed. Hoping that all diffi-
■ culties would not be of long continuance, I have
I not, therefore, brought this subject to your con
sideration, but now that tbe country is involved
in a war of indefinite continuance, I deem it
proper to submit it, in order that the Cocventicn
may take such action on the subject fts; may be
deemed proper.
At your last meeting, in the .city of Macon,
vou submitted to the cousid eratiotf •of Cotton
Planters, the propriety of largely reducing the
usual breadth of land planted tyilli cotton seed,
and the reasons in support of this suggestions,
were then sqhrqitted. Wbat hast been done, in
this respect, there exists no means of ascer
taining, but I deem it a reasonable conjecture
to say, that the crop has been reduced five
eights.
Propposed by Col. J. S. Thomas.
Resol.vtd, That, the Convention, suspending' for
the present, the various subjects would, ordinari
ly engatge its attention, that we approve .all tbe
I meansand measures adopted for the defence of
I the country. And we urge the whole j eople to
1 aid and abet tbe government of the Confederacy,
!in tbe active prosecution of the war, into which
we have been so unjustly plunged by the govern
ment of the Northern States.
Proposed bv Mr. S. Bel);
Resolved, That tbe Convention approve hearti
ly, of the present amount of grain which has been
planted, and urge still further efforts, asjh.e sea
sons may allow, for planting esculents of ,every
kind.
Proposed by Mr. F. A. Hill: : ,
Resolved, That we disapprove of the action bfour
representatives in the Confederate Congress,, ip
tbe extravagant appropriation made in
favor, by voting themselves, individual-lyi,. .three
thousand dollars per annum; particularly whfen
the government'is involved in heavy pecuniary
difficulties.
Proposed by Mr. M. West:
Resolved, That the next annual meeting of the
Convention be held in the city of Americas, Sum
ter county.
The Convention then adjourned.
Howell Cobb, President.
F. A. Hill, Sec’y pro tem.
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• From lhe Charleston
THE YANKEE WAR POLICY—OUR LAND AND
NEGROES. ;
It is refreshing ia note the coolness with vyb’.'ch ‘
the Northern journals are arranging the future,
disposition of the lands and negroeti belonging to
the people of tbe “rebellious'’ states. The la-ads,
they all agree, must be apportioned among Yan
kee settlers ; the negroes are to be stolen, and, ’
as slaves, are to “continue happy’’ under Yan
kee taskmasters. With regard to the. “appor*
tionment,” we copy the scheme gravely sug
gested by the editor of the New York Rost. He
says :
At convenient points lay out tracts from the
forfeited ot 40,000 acres each. Lay out
these tracts in squares, as near as may be, and
let each of these tracts be the homestead of a
body of a thousand men—say a regiment! of
infantry, battery of artillery and a squadron of
cavalry.
At each angle of tbe square of eight miles—
which would be about tbe size of a 40,000 acre
tract—l would place a redoubt with a few guns.
In the centre place a fort large enough to need a
garrison of a thousand men. Here could be the
Quartermasier’s stores, the shop,’etc—in fact, the
village of the homestead. •
I would divide the tract into forty acre farms,
as near as might be. On them the soldiers could
work when off drill, and raise crops, with the aid
of free negroes or otherwise—these negroes being
in a state of apprenticeship. Such troops would
need little pty, they could nearly maintain them
selves. They could be made, by the effect of mil
itary discipline, to treat the apprentices kindly,
and to work regularly, and they could help col
lect the war tax.
I would cover the revolted States with a che
quer-work of these fortified homesteads—let the
white squares on a cbeqaer'ffioard represent va
cant lands—the black the fortified ones. The low* :
al whites could occupy the vacant lands.
As to lands, that is certainly explicit enough.
And the following editorial from the Boston Pilot
is equally explicit with regard to tbe fate which
the Yankees have in store for such negroes as
fall into their bands:
What should be ultimately done with the seized
blacks? They cannot be restored to their first
owners, for they are traitors, if t iey be allowed
their freedom they will be worse than a plague of
locusts to the Free States; if they be not taken
care of they will suffer from every description of j
want, f. r they have never known bow to provide ;
for their own necessities; if they be taken from I
the South, the cotton, the tobacce, the rice, lhe
fruit and the sugar Os the Souta will disappear,
to tbe great detriment of the commerce, and,
therefore, the happiness of the world, and send*
ing them to Liberia would involve an enormous
expense, which the country, at present, is unable
to bear. Thus, the case has a formidable difficulty
■at every side of it. But something must be done.
Before six months there will be scores of thous
ands of negro contrabands on our hands. Wbat is
the best thing to be done with them ? It is plain
that the negro is better off, both in regard tq
himself and to the whites, in bondage, than in
any other state. Nature has intended him to- be
the slave of the white man, and nothing else.
Every feature of bis mind, of his disposition, and
of his person, indicate this. Inal! he is, he is
nature’s work as completely as tbe white man is.
Philanthropy is a fine virtue, but it is a vice when
-t would subvert the decrees of Nature, which is
another term for Law , and it is as clear as any- /
thing on which the sun shines, that the servi’ e
condition is the most happy in which the bla r ; . r
can be. There is no sense in objecting to
fact; Nature has made it, and history is the
ness. To bondage, therefore, the cont\^|- an( i
negros should be restored. Expediency requires
this. Humanity—a generous regard’ s or ‘ t b e
blacks themselves—demands it with a koud voice
Bondage is their natural position. i n 4 they
were as happy as they could be beh ihp rP h P u
hon commenced ; 1D ‘ it they wo be hXv
again. To bondage,. therefore, /hev ?hould l Ve
restored. But wno should be mastpro y
Not their old ones, for they ?Xrs™ They,
therefore shou'd have new 'waters. Who they
should be It is too soon yet (0 , U ggest. A little
time will tell. Bu. this is certain : that
the most natural and mo expedient thing for all
parties to be done with, the contraband blacks is
to restore tnem to bondage, and to bondage in
their native country- -the South.
Fieb in JoNßSßo r xo’, Ga.—A friend from Jones- !
boro ,on the 19t’ z i ns tant, writes us that “last
nignt oetween 8. and 9 o’clock, the beautiful and !
valuable resid snee belonging to and occupied by
Mrs. Juna A. Burnsides, together with nearly all
its contents and outbuildings, was destroyed bv
lire and rendered useless. No lime was allowed
to remove anything scarcely; even the wearing
clothes and money was destioyed, and the family
in comparatively a few minutes, were deprived of
a good house and those necessary things that had
taken years to accumulate. The c mse of the fire
is unknown. There was no insurance.
Atlanta latelllgenee , May 21.
The Enemy Below.—On yesterday the enemy
on Cockspnr Island, sent up a balloon early j'n
the day. There was one tent visible at the bats
tery on Oakland Island, and no vessel was to be
seen in the river.
Their preparations are no doubt being quietly
perfected, and we should not be lulled info false
security.— Saoannak Republican, May 21.
Ex-Governor Lowe, of Maryland with
his family, is at present in Milledgeville, the
guest of brotherniEhlaw, L. H. Briscoe, Esq.
VOL. 14,—N0 22
THE MISSOURI ARMY ARGUS.
We have.-received a number of the Missouri
Army Ar<jus, now* published at Corinth, Miss,
by W. F. Wisely, and edited by J. W, Tucker,
formerly, we believe, editor of the St. Louis
(MiSpqqrt) State Journal, which paper was sup
pressed because of its secession proclivities. The
Argvs is issued wherever Gen. Prices’ army *
halts, and is intended to furnish army and othar
news for the soldiers. We clip the following ar
ticle from the Argeis'.
Tub Irish Soldier?.—A statement obtained
’some currency through cerlalmEV.wsiiapers to the
effect that the surrender of Fqrt "Jam k* on and tbe
fall of New Orleans, was- tbefie.-ul; of a mutiny
in the Fort by the Irish troops. z
This statement proves to be utterly false, and
grossly unjust to that gallant and patriotic class
of Southern troops. The troops which did mu
tiny were foreigners, it is said, and were com
posed of French and Germans. The Irish were
as true as the magnet to the North pole. Irish
men are not. the men to prove treacherous to the
cause they have so nobly espoused from princi
ple alone. We have inspected a written states
ment, given by an officer who participated in the
struggle at New Orleans, showing from facts,,
numbers, station?, and organizstious, the brave
aud loyal bearing of the Irish troops on that
memorable occasion. The loyalty aud bravery
of our Irish fellow citizens in tbe .South, in this
our time of trial and of peril, will ever be a
theme of grateful admiration to the Southern \
people. \
Let those public journals which have unwit
tingly aided in circulating this cruellv and un
just report, hasten correct it, aud do ample
justice to those Lrave men who to-day stand
witg swords dra K'h to do battle with and for the
sons o. the These gallant. men shall be
numbered t be c fa O sea ones of our future ins
hentance..
I from the Savannah IlefuOlieetn, Mayii.
The readers aud patrons of the R-publican.
will see, by reference t» another column, that the
Editor. James R. Sneed, Esq., who fora k-ng
time has so ably filled this editorial chair, has ut
last passed to another state of existence.
It may not be out of place, in this brief notice,
to say, that the movements of the departed have
bt*en, for many months, the subject of anxious
observation on the part of his dearest friends.
To say the least, they have been unaccountable.
He has been known suddenly to leave bis office,
and after an absence of one or two days, as sud
denly to reappear. No one was warned of his de
parture or of his return. He has, with increased
frequency of late, time and again, left his sancs
turn on Friday afternoon, and wandered up, aud
down tbe Gentrail Railroad track, until Monday
morning, enduring the smoke and dust and fa
tigue of railroad travel, instead of enjoying bis
ease aud quiet, and recreation in and around the
city.
Bsing frequently in his company for several
months past, and observing these symptoms, we
made our diagnosis of his case and’became con-
I vinced that he had hypertrophy or enlargement
of the heart. As t?te event has proved our susv
pieion was true. The affection increased until, as
tbe report before us p.’" OT6S » capacity of his
heart was sufficient to c «»O}her qf equal
size.
But after all we must not mo.’’ rn > even
we shall never more behold him he was - We
have known him long, and can assu re his fronds
of our confident belief that he was p -epared f or
the change. He had long kept his lamp ♦■rimmrA
and burning, waiting for the evenfful ho 5,7 " A
minister of the Gospel was called in, and, ai'**' a
few words of exhortation, a quick flutter of 1
pulse, and a gentle nod of tbe head, saying he'
was willing, he passed joyfully into the “bletsed
estate.
, The fallowing notice which we find in another
part of the same journal will explain the object
ot the above article. It’s 11 say that we
wish our editorial friend and his fair bride much
matrimonial happiness:
Married—On Tuesday evening, 20th inste rt
at bandersville Ga., bv Rev. F. R Gould
James R. rfneed, Esq., Editor of the Sav
Repuot.ca.ri,' and Miss Leonora Coben, a*
Mary’s, Ga. ot.-
Movements of theWe’ , t
reports, says the Ksme (Gari C tt<ltheiiuca4efi
reached here Tuesday rnorrO ot tbe’22d,
Yankees, or Yankee-Dutc 1 Dutcbi>
—had crossed the Ten whichever you please
vilie, with a force of s lessee river al Gunters
had commenced the Hundred cavalry, and
ports arc rife that Z V sua< de P re ff a tioiis Res
erations. * intend to extend their op.
petre in tbat f,ad een making salts
their >w»er moved off by
ThSv wi'l e oa ' Pues day last.
We lea’ be moved farther South.
Huntsvi’ a lat-ge portion of the atiny of
Sn»rs f IS e '’ m ?° sod oflow Dutch aud for,
ed an'u TU description, almost too degrad
uttci /Y 8 b r c ‘ aSßed among humanity, and
l tci devoid of any enobling lralls 01 X, a “
whatever and hesitates not at any acts of
dainy and deprecation that mar gratify their
! xuitisn sensuality. s metr
And must we lie supinely still, Rn d let thia
ZeilJf th e ° f Clvi! ’ zed Bava ges overrun any more
fhl UnajSuulh? What haß become of
the dauntless courage and chiralric uanng that
was to have en unerring rifle behind every forest
ree m ! V he pa,^.WB T of tbe invader? That was
to mat k every footstep of his unhallowed
w*th the cri.7 son tide of life ? Or is Mr cou £™
uke Bob Acres , “oozed out at his fingers’ ends*”-
Up toen, and let us be doing and let us wipe
out the stain that already rests upon us, for per
mitting them to remain so long in onßof P ihe
fairest spots of the world. * 01 U
News from thk Coast.-Wc learn bv a courier
who reached the city Thursday morning, that thl
pickets captured by the in the affair of
Wednesday on Battery Island, consisted of Ser
geant White, Corporal Wilson and f our pr
of Company E, (Colletin Guards) attached to Cm!
CH. Stevens Regiment None o f t h e Marion
Rifles were captured as reported, nor injured-
The gunboats continue to throw shell intbenei.il.
borhood of Battery Island yesterday, and wf re
w >tbiu a half miles ofSecessiouvtHe. No
attack on the latter post is anticipated as the
enemy from the shallowness of the- river eaonot
bring his boats within range of good sfnk.nJ
d,st r?T t Our ! men are pre? red b f
land attack, and if a fight takes place which
is probable, we may expect some news
A deserter from Major Lncas’ command ate
tempting to make his way to the fleet w-«
tur-ed yesterday nearSeciaionviUe, by a member
of t<i6 Willington Hungers.
C'/mt teflon Cou) lULaty 23 I
Col. Morgan and the Boys.—While on bin
to this city Tuesday, on the West Point train a
boy came along selling Clgar s. Col. Morgln took
“aid- *4 don’? h h WaS about t 0 puy the bey
nin 1 d ’ c , ba, E e you anything for cigars ”
Col. Morgan asked him why. “Oh ” savs th»
boy “you are the Col. Morgan who’ hl 8 y been
k ve gS” U P| Ud y u U ar t welcome *0 anything
I l 1 leused wl,h the answer Col Mor
gan took from a roll of U. S. Treasm’v
five dollar bill, and presented it to the bov and
told him to keep it as e. memento. "
Montgomery {Al.a) Advertiser, May 22.