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A Remarkable Letter. What Gen. Sherman sa : d to & Southern Friend in 1564. - WHY HE WEST WTO THE WAR. • ■ ■— ■ fYom tho Huntsville Advocate, II. • Mr. D, M. Martin has handed” ns the following letter from General Sher man to himself, which we beg our readers, to read carefully: It shows the animus of the country in fighting for the Union, and the stupemh us, insane folly of secession, hy which fatal act the South has lost so much : Headquarters - Military . Division of the Mississippi, in the Field, near At lanta,. Ga., Aug. 10, 1864.—D.. M. Martin, Sand Mountain, opposite Belle fonte.—<-My Dear old Friend When jn Larkinsville last winter I inquired after you. and could get ho positive answer. 1 wish you. had sent me your letter of January 22- —which ! have just received^-for I could have made you iebl at ease at once. Indeed, do I well remember our old times about Bellefcmte, and the ride we .took to the corn mill, and the little farm where. 1 admired the handsome colt, aad tried to buy it,.. .. . > • Time has worn om and you Are now an old man, .in want and suffering and I also no . longer young, but. leading a hostile army oh the very road I came when I left Bellefonte,’ and at this moment pouring into Atlanta the! dread missiles of war—seeking the lives of its people: And yet William Teciimseh Sherman, vou knew in 1844 with as.‘warm a heart as eyjetv and anx jous that peace and plenty- shall pr<'*- vail in this land, and’ to prove it I .de fy. Jefferson Davis, Gen. Dee or Gen. Hood to make the sacrifice- for pea-ce that.l will personally and officially. — ; J will to-day lay down'my power and tny- • honors—already won—will ‘ strip myself naked, and my. child and wife stark naked as the world we came, and begin life anew, if -the. people of the South will but cease the war, elect their members to Congress, and let. them settle by argument: and reason ] the questions'growing-out of slavery, instead of trying to divide, our coum ti'o into two angry halves, to. quarre •and fight to the Fitter .end of time.—- .Our-country never can be divided by an East and West line, and must be t>n?; and if we must fight let.us sigh; it out now., and not bequeath it t-o our ©hildngp. . • • • , ‘/I was never a politician/bnt resign- ’ frd from the army and lived in Cali* fornia;’ till 1857,. when Icamo back with my wife and’ three children,, who. Wanted to- be i>ear home—Mr. Ewings, tint Mr. Corwin’s—* but I had the old army so. ground..fn my .composition that civil pursuits .were too tame, and 1 accepted an offer as President of the Louisiana Military Academy.'. There* foje at .the tune of Lincoln.’? election | was at Alexandria, o.n Red river.. . 1 1 aw, and you’ must have se.en t thut *he Southern politicians wanted to bring, about secession, separation-. They could have elected Mr. Douglas, “put they so managed • that Lincoln’s ■flection was “made certain, and. after they accomplished this, was-it hones! and fair for them to.allege it as a ause for war ? Did not Mr. Breck* iuridge, as Vice President, in his seat, declare Mr. Lincoln the lawfully olec* led President of the United- States ? Mas it ever pretended the. President was oiir Government.. - .Don’t you know that Congress makes the laws, the Supremo Court judges them, and the President only executes them.?— Don’t you. know that Mr.- Lincoln of himself Cjuld. not - take, away your, .tights 7 . . v • . •• N T oW, while I was in Louisiana, and while tho the planters’ and mechanics and industrial people were happy and prosperous, the politicians and busy* , bodies were scheming and plotting, 4nd got the Legislature to pass an or dinance cf secession, which was subr . quitted to the who voted against it—yet the politicians voted the State out, and proceeded to take possession tt the United Stateg mint, the fort, tho arsenal —afid tore down the old flag arid insulted it That, too, be* ibre Mr.. Lincoln had got to Washing ton.’ I £flw things, and begged j Rra t -g and Beauregard and Governor ! Moore, and a host of personal friends,’ to beware ,* in that was high treason, j JBot they answered the North was, ®>do up of moan manufacturer*, of! | trader?, of farmers, who would not j fight. The people of the North nev er dreamed of interfering with the slaves or property of the South. They simply voted as they .had a right to do, rind they could npt understand why the people of the South should begin to take possession of the Uni* ted States forts and arsenals till our Government had done • somethii g. wrong-*-pomething- oppress ve. .The South began the war. You know it.’ I and millions of cthere liv> ing at the South know, it, but.the fee* pie of .the North were as innocent of it as your little grandchildreh. Even after forts had been taken, public arms stolen from our arsenals and distribu ted among the ang y militia, the brave and honest.freemen of the-great North could not realize the fact, and did not until Beauregard began to fire upon a garrison -of the United States in a fort built by the common tr.asure of. the Whole country. Then as by a mighty upheaval, lhe people rose and began to think of war, and not until then!, I resigned my post in Louisiana in March, 1864, because of the . pub lic act on - the part of the State in seizing the. United States arsenal at .Baton Rouge, and went to JH. Louis where I readily got lucrative employ ment, hoping that some change would yet avert the war. . But it Came, and I and all of mil;* tary. education had to choose.- I* re peat that then as now, I had as -much. love for the honest people of- the; South as any man living. . Had the* rethaihed .true to tho Country. I would have resisted, even with arms,, any at tack upon their rights—eyep their slave rights.. But when, as a people,; they, tote down our old flagjpod spit upon it -and called us eowsa-ds,.. and dared us to the contest, then I took up arms- to: maintain the inte. rity of our country, and punish .the men, wbd challenged us to the conflict. Is n't .this a true picture ?. Supposing the North lad patiently submitted, what would have been the verdict of ry and the world ? Nothing else but the North was craven and coward.— Will you say the North is craven and coward now ?. Uru&l and inhuman as this war has been,, and must still con tinue- to be, it was forced upon us. M e had no- choice. And we. htva t>Q choice yot. We must go on even to the end c"‘ time ;.even if’.i.t re lilts “in taking a mil lion of lives, and desolating, the .whoL .land, leaving a desert behind. We must mantain the integrity of our eoJ-n tfy. And the. day will come when, the little grandchild you love so well, w il b.less us'who fought that the Uni- ; ted.States of America should.not sink into rnfatuy and worse than Mexican anarchy .by -the. acts of. Southern poli ticians. wh.o care no more- for you-,’ or. such’as ‘ you, than they care for the .Hottentots. ! have never underrated the magnitude o-f this war, for ! knob the-size of the South and the diffi.cuj ty of operating it! But I also know that the Northern races have, ever since- .the war began,- had -more pa tience and perseverance than the Southern, races. And- so it will be n-ow—:we will persevere to the end.-—- - All mankind shall recognize in. us a. brave and stubborn'race,, not to be de ferred by lhe magnitude'of the dan* gfc*. - .Only three years have passed, and that is but a minute in a nation’s life, and see where we aro. M r here are the haughty planters of Louisiana whp compared Our hard working, intelli gent'white? of the North with th#ir. negroes ? The defeats we . have sus tained have hardly mi'de. a phase in our course, and the vaunted braves of Tennessee, Mississippi, . Louisiana, Missouri, etc., instead of walking rough shod over the fre men of tho North, are engaged.in. stealing horses and robbing poor old people for a liv ing, while oui armies now tread in eve ry Southern State.-and the biggest ar mies in Virginia and Georgia lay be hind forts and dare not come out and fight us cowards of lhe North, who have come five hundred miles into their country to accept the challenge. But my dear old friend, I have bored you too much. My handwriting i not plain, but you have time to study it ont, and ns you can understand, I have a great deal of writing to do, and it must be in a hurry. Think of what I have written. Talk it over with your neigh borg, and ask yourselves if, in your ! trials and tribulations, you have suf, fared or# from tbc Union toWier s f than you would had you built your barn where lightdiLg was sure to burn and tear it down. Did yo; not fell in voke the punishment of an indignant God and Government T. I. care not a straw for the niggers. ‘ The moment the master rebels, the negro- is free • 6l j course, for he is a slave only by law, : and the law broken, he is free.’ I command in all Tennessee, Ken-- } tucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Ge.or .gia. The paper I enclose you will be of service to you. 4 Love to Mrs. .Alar tin. **’ ■ W. T. Sherman, Maj. Gen. Ck: * ; :—“ LUCIUS C. BRYAN, JCDITOR. ... . • -r. *THO M ASVili tfi’ OCT. 4, IMJ. •*’ •* *• . “” . r ~~ .j! —i . Rngn! Raft!'! Ragi!! ! Full value -will be.patdat tlie. Euterpri.se Office fo.r all clean cotton • and lrn-en Lfct tbosfe wjio wish us to curry on the paper’ suc cessfully save and bring its i all .the Xhrowu about and warning on their premises. Wife kno'w there is plenty ol them, if you wiu. only gather up anJ seud them. • ; - V i. ‘ , i r- i 7 ■■■■ r T . . Election To-Day. tV>-dy the feleefion takes plac in Oeor ; gia for delegates to the State Convention, to be held at Milledgeville on the 4th Wed fiesday in -October. ■ From what we have, l-ead ia the paper* of t.he State, and suitable men will be elected tbraugho'ut the Slate, fn Th.omasi .County there D >!ut ®bc ticket announced, *nd we may safely s*iy that MeStrs. Seward, *Uex;iß ii't aui Afclntyre will be elected. .So fyr there is no political cxcit'emeni is this eec*. lion, aad if Georgia does not rpfce-dily got t a'ck iu-to’ the Union, it will - sot be the fault ©f our people. ‘ > • -*——— • •* -^--7* For Ute New York Cinc.inati, Louisville and Atiant-a papers wc sr* under obliffa* I'bns t-o l)r. T- S.. Hopciitn, who we r.rc pleased losee has'returned, safely iron; hi trip to Washington-, whither he was sura*- ‘ra .ned as a. witness on the trial ©f W urti* *-h r • Attention U directed t 4-Jt wd* vertisement of .Mv. J. li. 8. Pavts* Be ha? opened a store door t@ John Stark's, and is netv. receiving a B*w stock of'.goo-s,. which he promises to sell o the'a.ost. reasonably ‘terms*’ Vv> cannot undertake so enumerate the articles or comment upon the advantages he offer*, ‘ \ but are trill say. to the made- “giVfi ki*u a (call”. *.nti he will tell you what he told u*. Van doubtless love to hear “good ew.-’ Atlanta, Ga., is'the most extraordinary city in the South-. • Before the war it stood st young-giaftt, suddenly'sprung into •iaa ; *. , portance—a'paracitc upon the rail rpadsi, ami doing.in Georgia what Chicago did in Illinois. -It Was fast becoming the largest city‘in Georgia, but in 1864 it was almpst entirely destroyed in the terrible. conflict between.the'Federal Confederate ar mies. The war has ceased, • an-d Phoenix’ like, Atlanta is again tt.cit'y; or* rapidly ’ g -owing ifato one upon the ruins of the 01d..j Bus ness there has increased astonishingly. . The papers Are overrun with advertisements ° of every, disCriptiCn and still there is no fla . ging. The people’’of Atlanta know'the importance of -advertising and they all do illiberally —not n\g.ardhj. % The InUlliycn- . cer has tliirty*two columns, and of these twenty-eight-are crowded with advertise-"- ments. They support ‘ aad sustain the.ir papers. They are not afra-id Iq advertise, nor arc they too poor to dp so. A. city made up of industrious enterprising and - liberal citizens is obii.t and tofiodiith. ■ i • . Horse Thief C aught. . William Tate was brought’ to jail in this place yesterday for stealing’ a horse in • Aprillnst from Mr. E J. Young. . He was pursued by a Sergeant of the 12th Maine” whose names we lnve not learned, and af ter tediously following him from- place “to place at last came up with him in Alabama, i Tate is also.charged with other thefts. — ! Sergeant ——r— deserves much credit for his vigilance and energy. Hon. H. 11. Dawson, of this State, delivered it lecture on the i verting of the 18th inst., at Springfield, Ohio, on the subject of “Reconstruction. I and the condition ot the South.’’ Mr. Dawson recently spoke at Louisville, ! Ry., on the same subject, and receiv je l a communication signe* by Gener als Palmer, Logan, Rosseau, Corse and Leggett, who spoke of the effort in the most complimentary tortus Tti South Carolina Conren lion. This Convention met necording to the Proclamation of .Gov, Perry on the 13th . inst- it was ■ organized by • appointing thellon 0;. L> • Wlrfbw, President; Mr. Aldrich introduced the. follow itg resolutions, which were ordered to lie cu the table:.. Resolved, Thai tinder the present 1 1 ifiiiiinntt circ-in.isfftnc.es. it is. both wise and ] ditic to accvipi the condi tion in wbch W# are placed ; to e - dure ‘-patient'y the evils which we can not av-rt or correct, and to aw. it calmly the time and opportunity to • effect” our deliverance from ; unconsti tutional rule. .• ’ . ; Resolved, That a committee, to con* .pist of one member from .each J udicial District, be raised) to prfepare business lor the Convention,, aud to wh ; ch shall be referred all matters- relating to the public welfare of the . State Mr. Xnglis offered the following resolutions ; Resolved, That the. following aotn mit:ee be appointed; and a Chairman of each be. designated by the Presi dent of’ the . Convention.-. A .com* mittee consisting of one member from eUeh judicial in the State, represent- ed in this Convention, to be gtyled’ 4 >The’ Committee on the Constiiutipn ol the State,to ‘which shall .be r< ferred .all.prepositions Touching the • Constitution, or remodelling alteriug or amending oi the’ same. i a committee of thirteen mem bers, to be styled “•‘The Committee, bn FeUeral Re.iati.nLs, 0 to which, shall be referred., all propositions touch ing the relations of this ‘state to the U overn ruentv. ft he .flnited States.- S. A committee- of .thirteen-mem. ■ hers, to be styhid ‘‘The Committee on Colo:ed Population, 4 to ; which’ shall i be referred all pr position's • touching ; tile subject of slavery, and. the eo.ndi \-iu of the colored people of the State. 4. A .committee of thirteen-members, to be sjyl and “The Committee of S\ ays nd M. ar? to which shall b* referred all proposition* tOvChingthe fa is mg and • duburairg oi mosey by this this Convention or the State,, and also all pecuniary cMtß* *gain*t. the. Convention... ’• ‘ to be ‘ ‘*lb • Commit tea on OrdhiUnc * ■ uni lU*omtions, ‘* . til.’ which shad be referred ail proposition* : t>! matter* to ne ordained of > bv thi Coovcrmoii, tftot |>mperly of I exciasivslj rolerabhv •tg any me or] other the couamitwes beiviu provided! i or. •• ‘ ’ • . ••’•’ ‘•■•■'. - | Mr. Pickens offered the foifotiof | Ordinance which,, .on i&etios. wu-sj ordered to lie on.the table. •’ •••. • j We, the delegates of'the People of;, the fctute of South Caroiina 5 in Gep.* : oral Convention met, do ordain: That: the Oadinanee passed in Convention, ! .20 th of'December; iB6O, withdrawing 1 ‘this State from the Federal-Uniob be j. and the same*is'hereby repeated. •• .’ j The fortuß'es of war together with j the proclamations of the President of j the Un ted States and the Generals in'.; ‘the field commanding, having decided | therefore, .under the. circumstances, j wo -.acquiese in -rai l -proclamations,'! •and do hold by ordain implicit oh®*’ dience • ta. the Const jtutioti •of ’the'; i jjked States, and all law* ‘made in puryuanee thereof. . •'’ i : The convention tbyii < ‘ • a nisti! the day, -when the Govern *-j ors Message, was communicated.. • ‘,. j President JohiiKoii from uu English point oHicw. The New York correspondent cJ ; the London times, thus ciiaracterixe s . j President Johnson : • In fact, he has opinions of his own ; : he is a man who has fought a hard tattle with life, and i.t hag. left many sears upon him. The genial humor and buoyancy f Mr. Lincoln do not exist in Mr. Johnson. He is a tacL turn, self.possessed, cynical man, with j an impenetrable nature and immova b.lci purposes. . Every step .he has made was try dint of sheer hard sighs ting and dogged determination. He is ad inflexible and. ton scious man, who. having waged a staunch, battle, is.not likely to be defrauded of the fruits of it. Hitherto he has cxeis cised his power with few mistakes or faults, and his willingness to facilitate a junction between the republicans and the democrats is an evidence of his.determination to persevere in his grand object oi reorganising the South, which can only be done by poaee in the North The Fenian Eiirltenieht In. Ireland. The latest advices from England state that great excitement and alarm had been created I the increasing holiness of Fenian i • monstrations in Ireland. Four , counties, Cork, 1 ipv pearary, Kerry and Limerick, in which the orler was supposed to be strongest.,, had been placed under a.species of martial law, and. many arrests bad been made. In one of these counties aloiie It hi estimated that there are. fifty thousand Fenians: ‘ There Were the strongest indications, it is alleged, that the fraternity were preparing for an eady and powerful Many of the newspapers charge that the order.was started in-. the L.nited States and derives its aid and inspira - tion, thence .the design being to effect the independence of Ireland, through an embroilment of America-and. Eng* land'in a war, while one journal an* nounces that its headquarters: are m Liverpool. The Fenians aro said to .be.quite defiant in the- city o* Cork, and are nightly holding- meetjocajand drilling, - T|lcy hiV6 also had strations in Belfa t and Limerick.—* The. Catholic-cl-ergy continue to de* nounce them. un*i urge the people net to be carried away, by the excitement. ’ Hogs. ; — Keep. fattening swine in comfortable close quarters. Feed well and regularly with ground grim and cooked feed.. Give a few bandfail* of powdered .charcoal, dampened, and sprinkled with £neal.. It is *0 tifcl* lent tonic. Keep the hogs and their pens clean, ekange their bedding as it becomes dirty. When unground and tweo-oked corn is to be fed, begin as soon as it glides•; it i the- more di gestiblc. ; . * •* • .. George Augustus Sala, in i recent article on “American A oung Ladies, i-bsys they are the. most accomplished I talkers in the world . Their readmes* of and ction, the . flow of ideas, their quickness'-of. aprehenil©f. If® teaily ind t.ufy astonishing.- An American gtr! has. pq mething smart wd spark* ling, and-voluble to say on every sub* 1 5 ,ect- Von beaming belle in the balco fny, with the cataract curls and the i * { fusion waist* despises utieh mean and Igechanietti irtiineery ai needles and thread- She has ! plenty to for ’ her*elf.” Nay, con v e rsationa 1 ly , iho : would give you hi ty and beat y<>u easi* ; iy. at * hunured tip. --be never ittasj* \ mers, she never hesitates. . X>XESX> ; : On the *V;th. iusthui C'asi-. Warwick. • child off. W, &M. K liarcl v - C trick, Aged * tn troths and ~i- day*. M Master, if is not dead. ‘ UI - eleoptU V* , Etilp. irigbt, trinwießt, ; Cu*te as tnorniug dew; • He sparkletfi Ww* exhaled. .And passed to Heaven. • T. .; t'letcheiyillfvSept., 30. 1865- Kew Advertisements. I "|f A VINO fitted up and opened our _1 S,<,LOOi\,>t the Store of T. J. i McLain, wt are prepared to offer to the Public everything that can be foued in a First Glass Saloon. ; BRANDIES, ‘ WHISKEY, ■ * • .’ gin. •’ : ■'. ale, \ CHAMPAIGNE WINE, L ‘• MUSCAT WINE, MALAGA WINE, PORT WINE, \ ■ CLARET WINE, kr RHINE WINE • : AND EVERV VARIETY OF LIQUORS, Either .by .the Bottle or Drink-—Plain or Mixed. | FINE HAVNNA CIGARS |of different brands. Anderson’s and oth* i ci‘B . ‘ . • • • . .. Fine Cut Tobacco, • % And everything to suit the taste of the most fastidious,'can be had at tmsHmi* noust, 9 iAs cheap as anywhere in the South. We | shall always keep on hand a • ! • LARGE AND WELL Selcoted stocltf And would invite the Publio to give us a call, before purchasing elsewhere. PETERS ft PERRY f. Oet *. •/. H. . Hi'-”