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. § • C!)c.§ouf()fni(tiita-pnsf/ • \J • *_ • * • f. < !<• C. *K% tY EDIIOK. V TfIOMASriLLB, GA. “- ’ • •. * . - —’ • —• • * • • OF* T^E iI4TI , • herh. • * • ________ * ** ; * ’ FOR I’RESIBEXT., • • .;JeileiNson I.)ayis,- * of \nssi.-.-irri. ’ . J • FOR Vl< E PRESIDENT, Alejc, 11, fetcpliens, OF * . •— • .• • —f , T S£r~ Tht* meeting!) of the Ladies’ S ildiers’ Aid Sooietv of Thra Cosntji for tb distribution of work ams the kMi of that “made op by tin- membem,.will btkheld ;n the O id H m fa .TbomaeviUft, wrerj two Veekf on i 9 o’clock, A. M-, the Int meeting beiofc oii Toeadaye September :tj, and regularly thereafter.* . Tlie meetings of the Executive• Committee, for Hie cutting out of work. £•, will be held, weekly on Thursday morning-, at 9 o’clock *r the house of Rev A W. Clisby. _ . • ** . . . * .--#• , • riiQ Camp Meeting at Ilorse Creek, hf tiie 1 1 th district* of Thomas, will ccynnftnce . ay night before the* last Sabbath”; # i Q # September, which will bu on the 2.5 th of.the month- All interested* wiii .please take*”duc ..potice. # # WM. J. JACKSON, . * • • • • . * Preachec in Charge. ••• • O t # . . . ~ -• • £ • • • ritr.o:v As our piap’er !s.printed ofi on Tucsddy even ing we could not announce the sifccess yl‘ the ‘ladies in their secotnl exhibition at the court Ji6tf.se on Tuesday night, Uut’we*fe*l warranted by their complete success ift their first effort-in Relieving tffiat the pubKc will ;iwarU them the patronage due tr> their zeal anl patriotism and* the cause in-which they are*engaged. By their fij.-t exhibition t"hey raised til4o, and we trust a liberal public will enable them’ to add many §uch sums to tike soldiers’ iuhd.. ——- • 4 ’**’ *H<Hrv’9 fjrx.titk'rn loficg. • .This Convention, met at Allant A on Thurs day Jast and aftcr # much discussion on the repairing of .old guns, she manuftkctifring of’ new, Ac.,-agreed not to Vepair die o'ld guns, but to manufacture hew guns. The State’ shop is •therefore to begirv trt otice tlie forgjng ot'arms for the State. * • As tliQ Governor has .abandoned the idea.of repairing old rifles, those who have deposite°d guns with us tb he sent to the Governor are re : quested to bring up uur receipts and receive their guns. * . .. — 1 * .riEETIM; to >o’l■\ Af 1” it i: i*jt i-;mi;y. # * * TATIVES. All the citizens of Thomas Ceunty who feel interested in the matter *are requested to meet at the Court Ilouse in Thomasville on Tuesday next at 11 o’clock for the purpose of nomina ting candidates to represent Thomas county in the next Legislature. N(imilK> rpvtOMt FKtIAI.E (4>L. • LEGE. . A circular from ’the President of this Col lege says, >’the proceeds, beyond expenses, will ■be tendered to the Treasury Department of the Confederate States. Let all sued patriotic Institutions be liberally patronized. The TCof lege is located at Covington, under the control ot the (irand Lodge of” Georgia, John Harris, D. G. M., President. * ‘ ■■ • * *AVE TfHt K.tRK! . 3lr.'Jonas Schiff informs ys tUa t ho is’ about to open a tan yard yi the vicinity of Thomasville in order to fttrnish for this market that irntis, pensable article, leajlier, now so scarce by rea son of .Lincoln's blockade. The farmers who ilitend to clear oak la ml the coming winter will how liave ah opportunity ty syHl their t>rk”, apd ’ at er requested therefore not* to* kal] the trees un til spring, whoa that object may be effected* by jn'HiKj, the bark'frOnv them. *lhis enterprise of Mr. Schfff is one that is very nfUeh needed, a<i leather will be much scarcer in it short time _ • even than Tit present, and.jtv'e hope the farmers will facilitate Ids operations jts far as they may no by saving hark’for which he proposes ty pav ’vfry liberal prices. Dark sells hi other p’arts* ‘of the State for $4,00 per ford* delivered; and Mr.- Soli iff proposes to pay the same ‘delivered iu ‘ThomasvTlle, o on the Kail rop’d if .the’quahtity be grout. • • ■ - m • •- * KIR|H,nE>J OF THE HIEITIA. GoY. Brown has issued a jlroelymation re quiring officer* throughout .the State,‘forth , tvith to enrol frh? militia thereof .and livid theqi in readiness-for service at a moment* wainin” •• O The. threats'anti .preparations of tha enemy to aitiack our ccvasjs, have prompted the. Governor l •tef this course’and all men, halrle, are required to dg service under penalty of the militia laws •f the State. It*is the duty of the officers therefore to proneed at cuiee to execute the com mands ot th Governor that the military strength .pf she State may be put ju condition for its de tense. . Persons liable to enrolment are'all free, white male citizens, as.well as aliens, under ‘ forty-five yeaWof .age ud'hot physically dis qualified for fervi(;e. • .. • V; llaviqg made this .statement we h£ve a que's tion to .put to tU “young mftn throughout the country. Will you wait to be /omwMnto ser vice by the n,dim lasts when lliert-* are* 1 •Jun >c’r o Companies aroiyM you -wanting,recruits , *o enable them to offer their services ibr the * defeils* of the. State ?* .When Georgia net;d°s defenders must she force hy oicn * sons ? ‘We o cannoi think so. W e should* be ashamed* to sed any Georgian forced to defend his Stafe. bet\those.wh< cany op leave home belong to .the Militia.; but let it never be sail} that ‘Georgia I stood in need of* volunteers . for htr defense. while uyOWjf man Wlfttu of her*.-ons. * PElf* * 1 Our readers hate heard that there* arg rae 9 o • than lpO papers in the North, and that very many influential mgh in .that section are advocates of Moreover, it i* currrenjt that a -‘great‘movement’.’ ft forward in*thc North, having for its festora *•• o # < tion uf’peaca, This Inovement consists of di vers public meetings in cities, towns,‘and villa ges by a-portibu of.the J)emoeratic pa'rfy efjhe North. Vho defe%ted*by the Lincoln par- * ty in *he of liincoln, bt were the nrst to take wp prms against tie (il* we credit the Republican organs) when secession ,* bccamt? inevitifbl®*. These “conservaGve” peo ple have fomvd out that war is ‘’miaous’” to the • # Northland now “willing tthinovft lfca-.’ xen and earth, (if We irtay credit them) to pdtan end to it.. Dut how do they propose to ‘stop ‘this'great curse which is # gnawing*at their vi • tals, abd roll back the 4ids of> blood ? Is i? by acknowledging the Imfejiendewce of the awl. treating With us as a separate Utktion ? .No, indeed; such an. idea kas not jet entered into their. liids. The most liberal men in tly<? North; those who are’regnrtied as the best friends •of the South, not tine of tlleni has yet thoitfjlfl tven, of. acknirtvledging us as a’separate, Sbvtr-.- eign and iadependent nation. *. . IVhat then is the lmsis of the'yieace proposi tions they have to offer the South ? ft is this : i “Reconotruction of 4he’Union.”. We liav-e. ex aiuiaed tfic “peaike resolutiniis” adopted.’ by 1 thifir peace mcotjngs and conventions, listened “to theit peace arguments, and r§ad attentively flits fulmiiuktiotis of tjieir ’pe'ace organs* against Ltncftln am) his government, and they all end ■ # iji the samotune, that of “rcconsh-itdio>n>f jlic • • • • , Un-ion.” They look not, or ultiniately, to'a temporary or final sepa’ration of the North and South ; but gre proposing ‘terms of peacp only ,witii a hope o cf reconstroicCing the Union. — Let pot otirpeopje blierefare, be deceived, with the cry Os. peace iu the Njjrth. are blind and cannot, yet see, what* the Solitli de • • • rtmilds as her conditions of p<?ace, .and in o tßcif • blindness they oannpt see that tho * Qoutli and ■not the No/th, ?s to dictate terms of peace. —- •When therefore, they fin 4 that the South will accept no terms .but those which, pjacc her upon an equal footing with the other civil ized nations of the tsirth,<the good offices these Northern • Democrats, these friends of the South would d© us, will* fee changed -to bad u ones, their conservatism to fiendishyess and bit * • . • # ter hatred, while a universal cry will reverberate through the dark dungeoas of the Northern pandetnonium, war! war! war! for the L iiion,” :yid death to the traitors. We repeat then, let not our people be decieved by the cry of peace in the North. Before we can “hate* paace with them, we have got toslaughter them* by the wholesale, Democrats tis well as repub licans, prostrate tlieV government, rtfin their prestige and completely exhaust their war re* sources. . -_.*• • . MBEBTV OF TIIF, I* R F MM. _ * Whaf a contrast between tlu’ two l'residQnt s now actiug upon th°c theatre of the world. One, while avowedly defending the Constitution of < the late United States, violates and tramples* its dearest liberties under his ’feet, while the other, even in the midst of difficulties and dan gers, sufficient to appal *and *bewilder sterner ’and steadier statesmanship, scrupulously de voted to liberty, forgives, with the lialtar a pound their necks, the very* men who had de ne unced him as a demagogue, tyrant and trtiit or. Lincoln caujiot tolerate a press opposed to his administration, and issues orders, in vio • * 1 ° latioa of the Constitution ’he defends, for it© suppression. President Davis rebukes the au thority that would abridge tfie liberties of the press tljrugU<inxiety for liis.own ’success and* that of the country lig defends. ll® refuses to suppress a newspaper, though its editor had shown himself a trakyr anti sought to over throw bis authority. Ifc conquered by m fid measures, and his aoeduct ha>rai§ed him high er, not only with Ins warmest supporters, but alsd in the t-’yes of lminy \fho were recently his enemies They tegin wow do feel that consti tutional liberty is safe-in h*is hands.• That his government is n°o despotism, as charged by the 1 • North, but the oUlv remaining s f cHool of Ame rican liberty, whither has been transferred Tyr safe keeping all the # fre*e institirtnjns establish ed by the patriots of the Rqvolutioh. * _ • • * • • .. . iti So ‘numerous has been Lincoln’s attests among thb. mutiftsers of*hi fcite demoralized - # • • * aj ftiy tha’t. his bftrra’cks, forts and nnsorjs are nm* • 1 ‘ run over* and he is nqw exiling hi; late sob fliets. gs the “ Grand \\rmf’ and shipping. l tlrem prisoners to ‘Tortugas Island, mng thej Florida *f\ey,s. Pealiaps lie thinks they-will ! ilio in.that inhospitable cliyie and give him ne* farther finable. We don’t believe “Old AJbe” ; knows who ta tryst in these days. More than half the employee* in the vicious departments of his gwerngient have been.reported as’“reb els” ig feClipg and segtiment. • • • • • o.mAUiiir iPO.\ i:i|E* woni;\. ‘ ..The Lfnoolnites hqve found somebody at last 1 they can whip* Having fled disgracefully from •Manama’s, thyy intend tube revenged upon tha wonttn. The telegraphic news mentions nu • o <P 1 • nieraus arrests upon suspicion arfiong whom are the following ladias of Washingtoh : . * . i Mrs. Grceithow, \f}d.ow of the former Li’ brariafi and Translator. •• . * . Mrs.“Philips, wife of Philip Philips; ‘a* well. LlK)wn.Counsellor at Law in Washington!. . * *’ Gw\nn,wife ot Senator Gwvnn, whose trunk-had b.een searched -and traces •of the Washington * fortifications found*. ’ Other wo mea hail begm arrested whose names are not given. * •’ 1 *• * >°• . . • . . # The fellow \phg “cracked a j*V’ ha.Psent it to be repaired. .* ; • Apse till r.itl „ > i>* OR linunrf •Not lo*ng since, soon! one (not ikAv rbujeni bered,) informed us tbcU business house .in Suitaanah ha*d then on hand. 10,000 ’sacks *if ’ ‘salt at J*he cost of *SO cents per sack, for which the owners were re fusing S4 50. pc* sack. *lf I they wqre refusing 8150, wc” presume they are . watting for the price to advance to 85.Q0. At 50 cents this salt co*t 4&>,ootf, while at 85**}0, it* will bring 850,00 Qor a net profit to the spec-, ulators of.forty-five thousand dollar^, ’ out* of* the Recemtiw,of the people. Are gph ;peo ] our frienis*or* our enemies ? £alt which cost* them 85,000, they sell to a panic strict-. en°and impoverished * people at 850,000. — • • Do they mCan. to give, these enormous ‘profits to the support*of the war, fer the ■deftuse of the country, or do they mean to *•• • • rufaj-d them up lortmor® prosperous‘-times that , they may’rtJl in luxury ? This is not th only instance that can be .enumerated. irr the tmly article for which the pockets of the needy” have , been drained. , Coffee, bagging, shoes, woolen* cloths, ami innumerable smaller..urtieles come in for their chares of these filched fortunes, for the netting up of Nabobs, # over the. prostration and ruin of the ceuntry. The war, to them, is blessing, Tor while they urge and succeed in I sjioving their poorer neighbor off to the field ( of*battlg,7Aey s*kulk behind to gather *up the .wreck uf.Jiis broken. fortune .a< h&lfprtcej— Tell us tligt the .matt wlut \vould do tins* is a patriot and ve Christian. We would as soon be lidVe the. Devil a saint*and that f\e possessed all the kingdoms* lie exhibited .from the* high mountain. The Northern but “a sliort , time *since express*!. groat horror upc# ths discovery government agents and others wc*e. amassing ‘ fortunes by speculating up on supplies furnished for the jtrmy, but flow much better are \re of the South ? ff fhose. great profits were left in. the pockets of the poof-pfopte, they wonjd’be better able to wea ther the storm —better able to pay war tales'” and better abfe to patrcTni7je theke sharpen? up on *t he ret urn “of peaco and. prosperity. M these evils are. abroad in tile land, as we* belieVe, i*c implore the pftrpctj’ators for the sa]te of igoralify, ©f conscience, of religion", na, for tin? sa*ke of the poojr, and a needy country trembling in the seal* to desist,.at’least for the* • # , present, and until blood is no jernger mingled ’with the cries of distress their projits wring from the people. . * * o ■ .’ UIMTAIIv’EI.KtTIOIV. A°t a re-election lor officers of the Di.vie Boys, hcl<it at the Court Ilopse ii\ Thomasville on Saturday last the following officers were* el ected : • . COMMISSIONER. ° ••• . .Captain L. Bryan, * . • ‘ First Lieutenant, E. J. Oliveros, Second” “ Jplin McLtod, . . Third “ J. 11. Stallings, non-Tommissioned. • First Sergeant, C. 0. Groover^ . Sepond “ D. A. Groover, . Third * k Sidney Williams, • Fourth” “ Itedin P. Sniith, . . • Fifth “ Wm. 11. Culpepper, . First Corporal, Alex* McDougald, • Second “ J, S. Burton, * Third “ .Jefttha Btana*land, • • Fourth “ S. 11. Walker, < Secretary, D. S. Bay. °RKV. 11. W . NIIAItPK. • ° By rcferepce to his card, in.another place, it will be seen that this gentlemfln has announce ed himself as a candidate for Senator to.repro °. * sent the counties of Tfion!as fc Brooks and Col quitt in the next Legislature. Mr. Sharpe is. one of our Dost Citizens,"well canal died for the . posfy and we .have no doubt, will come fully up “ to the expectations of hisYriendst . * . *-*•*• • The ’ battle of ManaSsas is becoming •o• . o ® Old, but let not our readers therefore neglfict to peruse the valuable correspondency on our first page from the Sayan nab Republican. If soiqc “have alfeady seen it, it will bear reading agajni, Th<? writer fias.done his* wdrk well, a.nd it is rare that we .find owe. s'b well qualified fc*"the post he iko\t fills. 11 is subjects <mcf language are well chosen and he handled them with # •* great gqp*d sensd. • ° “Anp m9n u lio shall he foynd capable of taking ad vantage of tkt necessities of his country and speculating on the ‘■miseries of his neighbors,* to gratify his sift'd>d soul, is a detected jpretch.”—Montgomery tfM.* 1 •Is there antj man ,in this our country, in these times of go*ieral distress, when evety iii divisual is_ calleiF on.to make “a sacrifice for libt erfy,,and when Vwnt°aiid peaury thifeatens to. *0 • penetrate home* of thousand* whohave jto bly volunteered to lay down their lives.in de -0• • # .fenSe.of that country —w ask *js thqrc an;/ ,man left behind--left with kgs family ahA all that is dear to ljitl>,.w;ht) is so unpatriotic, sfo “wedded to gatn, so unlecling a Vrdtch that his sordid soul will indulge itself in “Speeukitfng” 0 •• t * * . upon the necessities of his less fortunate neigh’ bors ? Lett evevy man ex’amime his. conduct Muring this crisis ant] scan elostdy his business transactions. Are tberc tyiy liaviilg,’ too great interests at home to go'fo the war, or., past the •agddimited by or otherwise disqualified, staying at home gathering, grsisping*and'cluth ing the i&recks of thefr ‘nmgbbors’ fortunes, as •they are tqr-p broken* nad hurled hither Und thither by tic blast? ,Are there ,any* who with hold tlipir hour Ami gold from their country’s ser vice atid yet. poftr it out like water for*the grdatly depreciated ‘property of* a “neighbor* • Cun there be men jvho p woufd .fake p tUese ad vantages of the necessities of the people? If so, then they deserve no 6 a hoquj and protec-• tiorf in the country of the brave and the Tree— they deserirj not to haw; theiy'ill gotten .gaips defended*—they deserve not the protection of tha brave soldier for their property and faun- 1 lies 3 and should be costpelled themsefves tt> defend shat which they had dishonarably hord ed under the shield of the injured, soldier.— The man who can gro.w fat* upon * the*, miseries “and wants of his neighbor, fs uot only noydiris tian; “but he i il'o patriot. And if* he is no pa- what iii lie? m u Jle that h .not for ns*is , against us “. ’ . . * . • • • “ , o * • -tu Ihr C iiittp.** *• , l after this head •Scnex,” in tin* R.uthcfn Con - ! fob racy, state? the fact tliat millions of dollars are I snt Nohh by basks and capitalists at the Sout.h for ®t lie furpuse of buying’Tiie bonds .of ihe Confederate State- . their present ilyprech.itell (jacket value. — I This is equivalent to giving or loaning,money to tbc enemies of tbe*Soqfn tt>. ajd (hem in proMtstinp Ltbeir vv ot* subjugation. We look upon H.ak a vi ol-it ion ot thedaw,*and thflse cuilty Os saefi transac tion- as incapring the per Us ot* iieason.* Ret iJu; District Attorneys cause an to Tie had; and • tfenex .subpa-ned ±ts a witness to give pnrtic . ulars.. If such laatty of* morals!, such gryss disli j • ally be permitted to flourish in our an ids t, we might . as well openly invite torie§ and spies to share our hospitality, altd to profit all the forms which Van- ‘ . kfe shrewdness may sqggest. Such conduct as that ; referred to by .“Senex* i-. not the. offspring of “a SiutthertflfoaYt era patriot.—S nthim R - j corder. * * • “. * *, if “Benex” knoVs wlfat he *ays to ba (sue, h£ is if he-does not expose the •par r-os. ‘ We* do not talk tw 4 • daxit,/” tjf morals — # the culprits it any) are traitor* ajid*should be dealt with as the law direpts. Traifors shuu4d. not be tolerated for one moment. J.et tliq au •thoritles look into this mat’tei*. * .*—--• • - , . Dr. •M. S. Thomp'son, ciUtor of tha Sawabnah Morning J\efps. recently paid a* brief visit to ThomasvUlu, ahd we find in hig paper i.the following cocipliment to the -ladies: * ‘• “In Thomas, as everywhere.else tht State, \ve find the ldie in Uuj lead irt the gjeat. movement of*the setting an example of patriot fic devotion and zealous personal effort tor the sup, ! ."port of the Confederate cause worthy of .the liigliet ‘ j s-vtlle and vicinity gavq an exhibition in the Cowrt’ House, comprising j series of interesting Tabliauz .which were.most tastefully and artistically executed by the young ladies end ypung gentlemen of rhe* village. The Hall was filled to it* ut ieost'capacity, a?id the entertainment gave the liveliest satisfaction to tfie audience. The entertainmeyl was gf\en for the benefit of• 11 ie volunteer corps in the service from Thoqtas county, and we were gratified to*learn tliaf a handsome amount was realized. .. —* •• • • —■ * . . . Oon.-itioh- . .. * Received by the Aid Stociety, yi addition to tfios* already published: 7 o . Mrs. AT. Melntyje, $lO 00—-and yarn for socks. * Jlrs. Sarah Young, 10 00. • • Airs. JPoah l’arfeigorr,. 5 00—and varn for sofks. Maj. .T. D. J-idwafds, . 500 ’ * * Mr. T. J* Liglwfoot, 5 00 M*. T. C. Mitdiell, ’ 10 oft .* • •Mrs. AMI. lfansell, tjire* hickory sffirtst •• Vlr. George Mitchell. 100 yafds hickory stripes. ,• * ”• M.*lj. Ct.tsßV, Secfefkry. . id Ihe Society especially tisks for donations of blan- Jtets for the soldiers. * •* • o . • . • -•o • . . [comjujeicatkS.J o Thomas Cooxty, September, 1S“1. L.C. Bryan, Esq..- • . • ’ Dear Sim—AHow me through your paper t<4 an swer varioua aplicatiens#tb jne, verbal and written, “tp become a*candidate for the State Senate front the district composed of the counties of Colquitt, Brooks and Thomas at the approaching election on the first Wednesday in next month. **. • .Nonnnaiing Conventions were a machinery used by the old political parties to originate candidates for ollice. As there now exists no separate political parties in the Southern Confederacy*, 1 ftsel at lifljcr t f to i>llow the use #f my name ior tiie State ft*ce from all parties and cliques, and’pledge myself* only to my constituents of the above named ‘coun ties if elected, to discharge my duty.as • Senator faithfully tMid impartially to the best of my abili ties. Yours truly, 11. W* SiiAitri:. • - ‘ * * V • I |? COAST DEFENCES. . ° BY J. n* The solicitude felt here respecting our coast de fences is highly painful. Georgia with greater abil ity perlips, B atid less sea.eoaat, excepting .Alabama and Mississippi, is less projected than any other State fit the Stßithern Confederacy. The defences guarding approach to the City of Savannah may be* suftfciput, but JLlrunswick, Darien, and other access •iWe points on the coast—Jipw tire ttocy Exposed, with not thr A guns nounteU to repel a*navalattack. Nay, tlie companies recently n;ustered into service there with Col. J’*rey W. Stylos at the head* of the regiment formed by them, have not enough ammu nition to uepel half their it timber of marauding” ab olitionists. The enemy c mid easily land at Bruns wick an army of ten thousand men without meeting Vith as much resistance as a strtiyv would oppose to the descendin<f waters of Tallulah; and the loss in curred by,t.hcir depredations upon property of every description would be intolerably grievous a? com pared with the expenses of putting the State in a •proper condition of defence. ° . , Now upon whom does ting blame rest? Not upon the*Legislature, for that bo<V at its last sgssiotj,* vo-“ toil to appropriatejonc nullioy of dollar-; to arm and c|£foid tiie State; and if the money Ifas.not been •raised, it*is not the pqojd?'s %ult, fur with hearts full ih patriotism, ams a unaivimdlis deteru?i natiou to establish flieir independence of Northeril tyrannj, stand by be maxim of Lowndes—millions* for defence, not a cety fo?tribute. • . The fa\ilt then must fie between *he Gonerttor, as ouroommander-an-chicf, and the subordinate*oflicijrs uifdtir his command. Facts indicate ii Aloes lie tkc.i'i'- Wtbknow tlfat cannon have bcn*Jj’ingigt the wj;art in Sabaifliah for months, and arc Jying there yet 1 waiting to bp shipped where’tiey ncigled. fieu'- ,eral loiwton,**i'e learn employed some “competent mechanics in SavatmalvTo make riy; requisite gun carriages, Ut Joseph EcqpomiAal Brojvn ci*nnteP tnandedthe order, and ItaA tßiyn ma'de in the I’enij by T mgn who never belore saw a %un-car riage,°sitfdy becadse the*\Aork could be dove a p fcW pennies choaper. TJie filings were made, |tiib are now in Suvjinnah* where they y,ave been inspected by military and risibly pronounced no better than go-carfv'usedju* hauling dirA on a ti"e of profound peaqp, it n*iglit do the public no detriment for his Excellency to bfisj liimsblf tHoeepeltf details of economy* which t*rj the strength” ’’oT little ir*inds ; such whether he shall have ” wine*:\t or have any levees at a]l; wheth er lie shall fill the treasury from the <jornand cotton fields, of .the people by exacting exhorbitant freight.on the Stat® Road, or from their pocket® by levying direct taxes ; nvjijther be sfiall be aWe to get gun powde*’ and gun carriages ,a few cents cheapur in Milledgevflle, or Swannah, and other; pavticu lafs of*like dignity ; in times thal tfy mgn’s j?ouls, tligt Sconomy is niggardly wiiich does ny>t t-nl brace the ends of sfutesnyinship. Not his pa triotism do we call in “cfilestion,, but his ability to m*et this crisis as it ought to be met ; and if the epemy sltould succeed,is he can succeed, in ravag ing our “rice and cotton plantations, kidnapping; ne ‘gr'oes, and insulting defenceless women.and chil ,dyen, on our ’coa.st, • tin; Governor's reptuation, wifi serve 4s a perpetual rebuke to that erryr, which ther-people sometimes commit in striving to make giant?; of pigmies by p efovatiftg them t’o high “positioni. * * . . “Pigmies*hough perched on Alps are pigmies still Pyramid* are pyramids in vald.” * * • Thomasville, Ga..*Bept. 2, 1861,. * . !L • 0 • • [COMMUNICATED.] . *"••<* S*ji#*ll lir Our Next Mr. Editor:. 1 notice in the Albany Patriot* a M for a/Jonvcntfon. withotit regard to pa'-t party :fflil-’ iations, to meet in Albany qn tlye 7th inst to-'agree upon a candidate to represent the Second Di-trfot jn the Confederate CongreS-, to be” run at*tke ap proac-hing election in November. .J\ e hopt> the fonvontion will plaoc bflfore the? peo , pie a man of *he l ight stamp, up®n wlioin all can unite, as.political sq*iabl>lJs and dissensions should be buried in the present crisis. In thinking* pver ,the AubjJjet, a nunibcr of names “are suggested as suitable,candidates for this responsible position. 1 The .Second District* # has amonjf Iter talentcil and chivalrous sons sever.il gentlemen suited to the oc-* careen and the times; but therg is mit* we prefer above all otljvs. We.allude ty> John \L Dyson. Esq., of Jhomasville. Mr. Dyson is a young man of brill iant promise, a skiltful debater, well-informed and thoroughly educated ; 4 nd we think Jins but f t * v equals anil no superiors irt intellect*in the district 1 To Ins gnrnlents clings no odor of [past political cor -1 ruptbon anal inlrigufl.. What sftVthe voters of the Second District to this* suggestion? J'atiuot. • o • • . COPfSTITUTIOrJ * , K THt ° • SOLDIERS’. AID SOCIETY, ’ . “OF THO.MAs* COi'.VTY. * • Article 1. The officers of this Association., snail ! consist ot’ a First and Second Direciaess, a Secreta , rv."a Treasurer and an Executive Coif) raft tee of 1 twelve, who together shall constitute a.Board of Di rection. , • . • * . Art, 11. The members of thp, B<±ard shall meet weekly—the ffiembersof the Association Shall meet once a fortnight, on Tuesday morning ai U o’clock, commencing .with the firjt Tuesday in September ; at such meetings the work for tTie ensufng f<Trt night shall he given out. * •• . Art. 111. Uftch mepiber of the Association is ex pected to be present at these meeting** .to receive* s*ieh work as sl*e*is willing'to undertake aftd also to . return to the Executive Committee thjit which sne lias before received and made up: and *a eonAiiui '•tioy oj’ 60 cents per month is sollicited from all who j, may feel able (ogive if* . * Art. IV.*Tli# First Wiectress oT tl*e Association shall•makt* all necessary purchases, Assisted by syiel.’ | ladies asyhc.may sclect 4 of by engaging an agent to Ida se. „ **• . , •• Art. V. The Executive Committee, under the di rqction.of the FirsuD,jrectrt*ss,diall*eiit out*alljgar n*ents, Aml.distribute tliPsame to he made ui>. ’ Art VI. articles tnadt by* this ,SoclAy shall b§i distribufcd .under * the* direction ot* the Boar*, primarily to soldiers engaged.ou the sea coast de fence of Georgia, and to companies tfenf from the coast to other’paris of tlie Southern Confederacy : and seeom{a*rily, to all needy companTes fsom the State. Whom we may have it in qur power to assist —in all cases diligVntlv seeking.jmtfti *nfiym.itivn frQin relialde sources as*shall prevent an improper or wasteful appropriation of the same. . • * Art. .VII. The .Ministers of the eevcraTcongreg}* tions of our foutity arc earnestly requested tftinte- > re*st themselves in elie affairs of this Associathm, and to coop’qrat# with the BoifrJ in* furthering* its. .objects by every, inean.s *n their power;“that tb “this end they be cJnidevejf honorary meiftbers of. this Society, and ijlvitefl to be prcs&nj at its montli* . ly meetings. • . * * . . O*FfICKJtS OF TIFF. SOCIETY. F’iijst Directress, Mrs. C. Iteid, Second Directress, Mrs. L. Jonos: Executive Committee, Mrs. Harda way, Mrs. L. Wyche, Mrs. Molntyrc, Mbs. E. Jones, Mrs. Luckey,* Mrs. Bodif, Mrs. llansell. Mi's. Spen *cer, Mrs. Sharpe, Mrs. Lowry, Mrs. Merffll, Mrs. , ■ Fondren ; ‘Treasurer, It. 11. llardaway, EsCp; Secrtv i tary, Mrs. M. E. Clisby. . . •mj'.mJikks of ihe. executive committee appointed IN. ADDITION tO THE ABOVE. Jlrs. Janies MeMifrray? Mrs. Traywjck, Mrs. E. .Thompson. . . . *. / - •• #'*i*fcMlcric fOlcclion*. As the date of thyelections under tha Cojjfede , rate Constitution seems to misunderstood by ma ny, we give below aH tljat is necessary to knowdn the premises:, *. . ] The people of the Confederate States vgteTor pre-’ sidential Electors on the first Wednesday’iff Novcm-* ber, 18<> 1. Tin* electors of the sevcr.ll States meet bt their respective Statu Capitols on the first Wed nesday yf DececSber, I§C 1. The (ionfederaUr Con gress inectstat it* present Capitol, Richmond, Vir ginia, on the eighteenth of kVbruai*y, 180'/. On {he following day, February lWth, the Votes tor* President and Vice President are counted. On the •22d February, 1802, the President will be inaugura ted in due form. # •* . * The election of Representatives to the Confede rate.Conjsress also takes place outlie day of the Presidential election. . : , ’ The Confederate Senators wiU.be clccfcd by tbe Legislatures of the respective Slates, all of which will conaSne before the day appointed for the mcct < Ing of Uie Congress.— Sav. Republican. . • Tlic fnaxt UiiA'iirc, . •• ‘fhe excellent war correspondent of tlm Savannah Republican, in the.qiyii -#e of a recent letter, says: lias hot Georgia sent her quota of solder# to Vir ginia*? If she has, then should she not look to her* own coast. :md see that timely preparation is made ’for its defence? You may have* ample Hat t erics erected (hr the protection of your harbors, but gte there no creeks and inlets where boats of light draft could land bands of mnraudeus ? I look fcvr no ag gressive movement, on thc’part o£ the Federalists, tit • l?ast for some time, cither in Virginia or Missouri. If thej r can hold tlieir’own until they can reorgan ize their scattered tfndMcinoralized forces, tliey will be more than satisfied. Tlteir’polic}* is, as soon as* ‘the cold weathear set* in, to harrass our Southern coast, td,m;!ke raid# ii*to the country along the shore, to steal, to ravage to burn, and to carry off every slave they can lay*their hands upon. In* this way they hope to create a diversion, end .compel us to send back a portion of the forces now in Virginia. Should their plan succeed, then they may attempt a second invasion id’ the South, provided Con federates continue on the defensive, which they will not. This second inva#son, however, if -ever ‘at tempted, will not ,be by way of, Manassas. The Yankees will give that place a wide, berth in a.H their future o movemcnls. • > • Yoa'have a coast line, from the mouth of the Sa vannah to Florida, of 14)0 mil?s. Along that boast, and almost within sound of its breakeik, are*.36,olio slaves And a large amount of other property.* *fhis the enemy knows as welt as you d®. .Nobody knows it bettor tlign Thurlow Weed, who has been to* Brun- * i swick more than once, and who recommends is a Hite issue of his paper the very policy I have indi cated above. The enenn*is well provided. AviHi ‘pi lots, too, who have ‘figen engaged in the lumbeV frotw.Soutlacrn Gcorgm, and Wl*o know the en trayco (o evqay inlof tojtbe*coa*st. The genstis ta ,, bles bnd the minutes of the epaet survey department [gave put him in possesion #f all the TnfoiAnStion he San dcrige. need not gxpect to gain any- Mliing by silence. • • . T?i.prmect all this pi’bperty, you* wTll rcquiVe epast guard composed of c.ava*lry. and ar tillery. This guard the State, es Georgia hertelf (l wilj have to raise and, equip, and the sooner°the wtirk begun the better. # The winter will soiffi be upon you,and so will the Yankees. \ou are fortu natS *n baving°so courtbijus and gallhnt yn officer a# Gen. Lawttfh to attend *to their reception; ijbd‘Ue will ifadergtand the object of Giis Reference, to be, to sh-engthen his hands and ti secure the co-opera -1 ,tion of the phople. • ** The JBth Georgia Ilegimenf. Q)l. Ector, Avjll leave to-d;y or to-morrow for Nortk-west grn A irginia, wh#re th*y will, join Gen,* Floyd's brigade. They will be supplied with flint and stfcel mgskets at gtaunton as thejf go on. Cc#. Semmef regiment has been ordered to Manassas 1,‘40*0, up the line of march to Mana’ssas to-morrow to join Gen'ToombS’ byigafle. Everybody is in mwion. * . P*. W. ,\s •• • o Tin 1 Skirmish in KannrVha llcT*-Truc It , |>rt. • s To the Editors of the Enquires! .-* Gentlemen In •your issu<? of to-day I noticed the.sfibjpined “Yankee telegraphic dispatch : . A SKIRMISH IN THE KANAWHA VALLE?'—TIIE CON FED *. repuj.sed. „ Cincinnati, Aug. 2‘f —A .skirmish occurred at Hawk's Ne*t iit Kanawha Valley, eight milesjieybnd on the 20th. The Confederates, • some four ‘thoug ,and sft-ong, advanced to where “the 11th Ohio “Uegi ment'had erdeted barricades, and were driven bck. WithaJossof fifty killed and a number wounded and Waken prisoners. o • • . , 0r loss was only two siightly wounded and one missing.. Our-forces capumM quite a mimbe* of horses and equipments.” *• * * 1 have just returne-lffbm GensW'ises’s command 1 having lett there on jhe night of the 20th, and after the skirmish was over. .Our force consisted of part's, oi. three cavalry companies (amoTuningto about 100 , meji,) and.ihe enemy‘nurilbered at least 000.® Col. ( loglian, ts our brigade, drove the cry my ba£k .to dhe Ila-wk s licsf,. taking two prisoners and dqjng other damage not known at the time of my depftrt- ; n 1 ■ j T \ ,u oss was one killed aijd three wounded.—* ‘ >en. use was present during the.actiori’and as cool an l as if though no enemy, wove in* tie vicinity. Our brigade was en*eanyicd at Locust < Lane, Biot less than five milep from the scene ol ac- Lon. YourS* truly, . • ••* • D. B’ rftiLirs, C. S.*A, . . MedicaJ Director of the so lgps under Gen. 11. A. is e.-j-liichmond Enquirer. • e Printing lirtit. * Printing Inks are being Suanufyctured tit Awnite,* Louisiana, by a firm, one of wdnch* is a practical printer. T. 11. Shields & Co.,*of New. Orleans, arc*, 1 tlj® Agents.* * . . • LATEST WAR NEWS. I'low the A ('"Rcitii iA. (.) Patty fort llallcrnN Fort llatterns Was surroiidereiFto tlib I ediyal, au tlihritie>*nt’a>..iit 11 o’clock yesterday, Thursday. • The sfeamer Winslow, which left there sj/Vm after . the surrender on yesterday, here bout DJ I o*clock ffist night. , • Slic brought ug iiTnc wounded men amj one dead body. Kron# Lieut. titi*en,,of*Cfpt Lamb’e jom ‘pany, who escaped and following particulars* * *. , . * * * The Federal steamers, eleven i number, com*, uiguced tbe bombardment,on Wednesday, ad the @ forts, Clark and llatteras, returned tluf.fire. •It was kefCjtp till dark with but little loss on ouf side. On morning, tbe conflict was renewed and continued Till about I*l* when, after a despe iMt* re*sista‘nce* ouj forces werfe comjpelled u> surren „dcT, and the whol® garrison are nowdield as. priso-. nets, save a*fcw jvlio est?aj?eif. * . . l{om. Baron, Col. Bradford, Cos. AFartin, Lieut. Col. Johnson, Maj. Gilliam, Maj. Atfdrcws, and iUI the f®i]'t!*iiis of the ]>ost arcs prisoners. Ouaenti.e/oreS at Hatteraay on Wednesday night, njkbther gentleman inf#riSed*us, was*Bsß. Some** few bscspqfl, pefhaps f>o of mov* ami Lieut. • itizeli things that.yot ftioTo than tiOvere killi-el and woun- dod. J’robably 40 killed*aifd wounded. *l*e tv ‘ niaine'd in tiie fort till‘half,an lioilr previous to its surrender, and iron* the lucid manner in which his statcments*were madiwwe have great 6oofiaenc6 in them. o * •• * The Vcderal fle®t cortsis*ed of elevcp steamers, foyr of which wtwe large war steamers. The bom barifment is represented by our informers as most terrific, o • .*’ Eieut. Oatizen says our men fought bravely, until tiiev Were compel* and to surrendei*. and l He defeat lit >our ai*n*s is only to be attributed tp the superiitrity of tbe the Abet batteries Tfie aramuni- • tiwm guv# out at Fort Check on .Wednesday aunt Min* . * r tins were spiked and abandoned, but Hurt llatteras returned tffie fire of'tlid Federal-, till ll ®r alter yes ierflay. , • .* Richmond, Sept. adjourned at niul uiglit of Saturihiy, until Hie third Monday wt >!<► venibcr n -xt, unless sooner convened by the l’resi dfnt. . * ” The annexed Acts have been approved*by the Prcgidefit*anfl made jitiblic: . . * , An Act estjrblislnng the ratfs'of. postage on news papers ams periodicals sent Jo dealer* tlyougb the mail or by express. The rates arc.the samt-as those * pajd by regular subscribers. • All’iiir* in \liNxoiiti nml Krrflucki. Fayette,*Mo., ‘Aug.* 30. lTie Cashigr ot a bank sent SIOO,OOO from Springfield to St. iw uis. Tifen-* ty secessionists beaded by Capt. Poinderater seized .it. •’ It is understood'tliat Liucoln’s'letter Gov. Ma goffin is conciliatory. He will be gnidetj by*the ac tion of the Legislating. •. * * * . . ] Quincy, 111., Aug 3(H—A special dispatch to Hie Chicago Tiawes says Lieut. Benkly weporis tliat Mtir ’ trti Green#ook Palmyt'a yesTyrday niorninga Twen t*y*cars containing an iuiounta|)lc* lot of guns, lev St. Joseph, were fired ijjto and made to return. • Cincinnati, Aug. 30.—Tvler'e defeat is fu’lv. con firmed. # • • Richmond, Aug. 20.—Reliable information from Washington states that on Wednesday a fleet of ten Federal vessels prviveil off *ll atteras inlet, with tho object, it is believed, of*landing and bfking posses siotWof the Priisklent Davis signed several tft-day, bill 1 could npt learn the nature of .them. Judge’Chilton introduced the following resolution •which va^unanimously passed ; ’Resolved, That the President i- hereby requested to cause to be prepaged a stand of colois and a sword to be furnished and paid for out of the fund pfacet! at the disposal of the President, by tlic eon • tribution of tbe members of this body, to bg pre sented to Col. Howell tjoltb, as a testimonial us the high esteem in which his patriotic services arc held by the members oT the Confederate Congress. The o mail agent on tlic Central cars reports t.lmt General Floyd waa surprispdon Mondaj andjost twcnty-1 men. On tlic n*xl day ho went in purstiy <.t the” enemy, and captured 17b Hessians a'iid tliiiiy v. g fins. The killed and wounded not reported. . Richmond, 9 Aug. 2'd.—A suitable and capacious building’for a Georgia Ilospityl lias been secured in this city today. Prof. f!. F. Campbell is here, cn deavoring to make other necessary arrangements The Hospital will be in operaticfli so soon as means ‘ and supplies can be obtained. . • Gallipoli)', Ohio, August 28.—A battle occurred ’on the 2*>ll i inst. at tbe Cross Lane, near •Summer ville, Virginia, between Colonel Tyler’s forces and the Confederates. Col.®Tyler’s forces, of®9Oo, were surrounded while at breakfist. Two hundred :ur mistiing. After a desperfttc*and bloody fight thc\ cut their way through and IcaPtered. St. Louis, August 28.—Gen. Fremont lias borrow ed (forced) $170,000 from tbe Exchange /flic Provost Marshal prohibits tbe circulation of the pa ,pers recently pfteentcj in New York. Louisville, Ky., August 28.-* Sj eciakdispaibhes to the Cincinnati papers say, that owing to unavoida bly circumstances? our forces under A”of. Tyler in Western Virginia suffered disastrous defeat. , New •York, August 28.—The Herald says that’ ex treme. measures ivill be taken to suppress all jsq ■ i’- , friendly to the South. Detective officers‘ore leaving < by eVery train to intercept packages us ;u-v s*; ip if. ?cc.** . .'• Vs fiod.iinil KvimL-i-m Stiijiflc alr.-l. few Yafk, A’qgwst 20.—Andetson. arrested lure yesterday, implicates Ben Wood and Isaiah Rynders as Southern Qorr^pondebZs. . Augusta, August 27. -The Charleston IQercury. ays that in*Richmond on .- y, in viw of the in 1 ° efficiency of the existing blockade, the Confedoratc .Congress pnased a*bilf throlving open *tlie whole Southern.toast, and repqa*liag the law_ establishing ports*of entry. By the provisions of this bill all vessely.may ent#r*ifny haikicq; or inlet, on the twast. and may ptyy £Jfe duties at the nearest Custom llou#e. * * * * . • The bill lias not yet. been signed by the President, who is sicls and uflablc to sign bills or attend, to other official business.* * • : A Uro|M<il J• w,Nlirtr-WcVn Viruiuin Con vention. ’• ,• Wheeling, August 2U.—The Western Virginjn Stutc Convention adoptedto-day an Ordinance erea ting°a*ncw Ffc’te, to be called Kanawha. The ordi nance provides that tjie matter *be referred to the people at a*i election to’be held ftn the 24tjt of.Octo ber for approval or reject*oif. The adjoining *couii tics.arejo be adirfltted* h a majority of tht; voters therein desire it. .* * * . •• • • • • The Post jOffict; Jfijpartmeift prders jhe abolition of Uie following post offices fit Kentucky: Hickman. Columbus, Paducah, and all ‘post “offices and post rourfes west qt‘ the Tennessee river” except the rout front Bussefville via Cadiz and Mayfield, find fr, mj Eddyv4lle to Oliver. All th*e post offices on this rout are continued e*c?ept Aurora. The New York Tjmes says that Gen". Scott has ex pressed *t lie opinion Hint t4u* Ctflifoderates must ipake an attack at*a*n early day. . Humor gays thaf laVffe mwibers of the (joirfede-. rates are in .and .about and scattered (| along tile roods leading from Richmond and towards Strasbure.. . > The New York Herald gays that the Confederates nof only maintain thair old lines, hiw have eneroacli ,ed ffcvlf a paile, and occupy several important yrato. getic jwirnts. • .. The IJncalioii Wclllcd. .* . * * Gov. Brown has issued a prqcl.%niation* declining the Revised Constifufion-is ratified by a*major ity® of 795 votes, and is not* consequently the Con ’ solution of Georgia. The<detion wifi beheld for ’ Governor underwit on the JirSt Wednesday in Octo ber nc*t, (and wb presume for mtynbecs* o*f Con ess and nfcmljers rd the Legislature, though npt stated in the Constitution.) Walt in the Kiyiuwhu Vnfley. T*lic Richmond Dispatch think*. and t'wsely too, that the Kanawha Valley in Western Virginia is worth a costly militnrj® expedition to regain pnsses sion M, from the fact that the deficiency fff salt to supply the'South can be obtained in that reghfii.- Flie pi oductibn of salt from the Kanawha IS:Tlines heretofore has been about 2,000,f100 bushels a yeal ith such an amount obtained, out; wants wqpld a 1 . 9nce be relieved. A descent on Rosem-rantz fo r $ ’ °bject°alone ig worth considering. If tlie Fed- |] ei al General’s lias been cut otf, as th*e* tele- la informs us, let us .include in it the w Salio e I, j Springs ol t]ic Kanawha, and then nothing cac fi 1 save him. *