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A Good Idea. — We learn that Major
Cumming has determined to have erected
commodious sheds in this vicinage, where
Government property can be well sheltered
and guarded. This is a move in the right
direction. Heretofore, merchants have been
compelled to vacate their premises to make
room for the ‘ Government,’ thus material
ly damaging the trade and business of the
city.
Burglary.—A few nights since, the store
of T. F. Lowe & Co., on Peach-tree street,
was entered, and several kegs of Govern
ment whiskey stolen therefrom. After a
spirited search the purloined fluid was re
covered, the burglars (Jerry Wright, Wm.
George, Guilford McDoodle, belonging to
the Provost Guard) apprehended and con
signed to the civil authorities for trial.
Combustibles.—Citizens will do well to
observe the military order, that all com
bustible materials (cotton, hay, straw, etc.)
now stored in buildings contiguous to Gov
ernment property of any description, be
removed to such a distance as to secure the
safety of all such property in case of fire.
Military.—Colonel J. Q. Loomis has,
by order of General Bragg, assumed the
command of all the hospitals here, except
the Roy hospital. All transportation for
soldiers belonging to General Bragg’s com
mand will be furnished by his order; he
may be found at the office of Dr. Alexander
on Marietta street.
The Ladies asjd our Hospitals.—The
other day the Rev. Dr. Bachman, of South
Carolina, made a visit to the hospitals here,
and has written a long letter to the Courier
in which our ladies are highly praised for
their untiring devotion to the comfort of
the sick and disabled soldiers.
The Scourge.— Medical Attention. —
The public have been notified that all cases
of small-pox reported to Judge P. Brown,
or Dr. Willis Westmoreland, will receive
prompt medical attention, either at the
Hospital or the residence of the patient.
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Generous,—The Southern Express Com
paiiy will bring to this point, free, all arti
cless sent to the hospitals for the sick and
wounded soldiers—provided such articles
are directed to the care of Dr. Logan or of
Colonel Lee.
Snow and Wood.—ln this place, on the
two coldest days of last week, wood was
sold in the streets at fifteen dollars for a
two-horse lead ! Is there no way by which
the city authorities can put an end to this
shameful extortion ?
Voluntekrs.— : lt is stated that during the
past week nearly five hundred able-bodied
men, from Northern-Georgia, have present
ed themselves at the military headquarters
in this city, as volunteers in the Confederate
service.
The neat appearance in the press-work
of our journal is a matter of congratulation,
for which we are indebted to Mr. James
N. Holmes, the efficient pressman in the
Franklin printing establishment, who has
no superior in his avocation.
The ‘Gate City.’— Temperance.— The
military commandant of this post has closed
all the shops where lager-beer aud wine
were retailed. Topers now stand a small
chance—Atlanta is a temperance city.
The Red Flag.— A resolution adopted
by the City Council requires the occupants
ot all tenements in which the epidemic ex
ists co place a red flag in front of the house,
with the words ‘Small Pox’ painted on it.
Postponement.—The meeting of the
Legislative t ommittee lor investigating the
books of the Commissary and Quarter
master, has been adjourned to the 17th inst.
Bad Condition, lhe railway crossings
in front of Washington Hall and those on
Whitehall street. Whose duty is it to fix
them, before an accident happens?
Absent Soldiers. —Officers and privates
belonging to companies A, B, C, aud D, of |
the Provost Battalion ot'this city, have been
ordered to report immediately for duty.
Fire.—On Tuesday night the kitehen
house of P. J. May, on Hunter slieet, was
consumed. The promt exertions of the
firemen saved the adjacent property.
Deputy W.H. Hancock has
l»een elected by Council to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Thomas Shivers.
Makekt Prices.- Butchers here now
charge seventy cents a pound for pork, and
thirty ti\e cents for beef. Mark it?
X‘jQ£jS 3S A fit JS St.
The War.
The two regiments from Georgia, called
for by Governor Brown, have their full
quota of companies. Five more than weri
needed were tendered and rejected.
The intrepid soldiers under the gallant
Morgan, in his recent expedition into Ken
tucky, destroyed eighty miles of the Louis
ville & Nashville railroad, over which sup
plies for an army of 70,000 men were trans
ported ; it will take 20,000 men three
months to repair the damage, and will cost
$10,000,000 to put it in running order.
The official dispatch of Gen. Pember
ton, in reference to the passage of a Fede
ral gunboat past Vicksburg, tells quite a
different story from the telegraphic accounts.
His dispatch of the 2d instant, says that a
gunboat, cotton-bound, etc., attempted to
pass our batteries on that morning, but fail
ed ; she received three shots through her,
was considerably damaged, aud ‘ now lies
below our batteries, on the opposite side of
the river.’
A correspondent of the New York
Times, writing from Port Royal under date
of 24th January, is of the opinion that the
Federal fleet will attack Charleston before
trying Charleston.
The Federal government has author
ixed the recruiting of 50,000 negroes into
regiments for service, to rendezvous at Port
Royal.
Peace Movements. — That there are move
ments in favor of peace at the Noithwest,
and in New York and New Jersey, can not
be doubted. All the more reason that we
should push the war as to make these
movements more rapid. If we will rein
force Gen. Johnston at Tullahoma, he will
deliver Rosencranz a blow that will double
the peace party in a day. Circumstances
have prevented this able General from i
fighting a battle on a grand scale, and there
is reason to believe that he longs to show
what he is capable of doing.
Tories and Deserter* in Northern
Georgia.
The Intelligencer learns, from an officer
in the command, the following interesting
particulars in relation to the expedition into
the Northern and mountainous portion of
the State, under Col. Lee, the Commandant
of this post:
The expedition consisted of three compa
nies of State troops, commanded by Brevet
Major Galt—which rendered very efficient
service—and four companies of cavalry un
der the command of Major Wynn.
The command captured and sent to At
lanta, as prisoners, fifty criminals —among
whom was the ringleader, Jeff. Anderson,
a deserter, who was captured by two mem
bers of the State line on Saturday night
last.
They also returned to their companies
over two hundred men. The whole num
ber ot those who had returned to their regi
ments the first of this month, is supposed
to be over five hundred. Over two hun
dred reported to the command, and the
balance returned to their regiments. It is
supposed that by this expedition two thou
sand men were sent back to service. This
estimate includes the conscripts who had
disregarded the conscript law, as well as
the tories and deserters.
Northern and European JSewu.
The New York Tribune calls still for war
until the Ist May, and then, substantial
success failing, it will accept “ the best at
tainable peace.”
The Kentucky Legislature has ordered
out twenty thousand men, under the mili
tary board, to resist the enforcement of
Lincoln’s proclamation concerning negroes.
The New York Tribune says that Count
Mercier denies that he has been a party to
any scheme for mediation, or intervention,
or that any proposal of the kind has ever
been made to him.
Bills have been introduced in the Illinois
Legislature to prevent the immigration of
free negroes; to secure the indictment ot»
parties concerned in making arbitrary ar
rests; and to extend the time for the collec-1
tion of taxes.
Rosencranz has notified the newspapers
of Cincinnati that the publishing of reports
of the shipment of supplies is prohibited, as
such publications were substantially notifi
cations to the rebels to prepare for captu
ring his stores.
The New York Herald, in speaking of
mediation, says “ that, like misery, it
makes strauge bedfellows. Jewett, Gree
ley, V allandigham and Napoleon are now
laying their heads together to accomplish a;
peace.”
The correspondent of the Herald writes
from Washington that the radicals still press
the President to remove Seward, and that
on Saturday a large number of them, Wen
dell Phillips at their head, demanded of the
President to oust his premier.
The Washington correspondent of the.
Tribune says the ‘ yellow book ’ in posses
sion of Count Mercier contains evidence i
that the removal of Butler was known to'
Droun de I Hugs in Paris long before it was
known to prominent members of Congress
in Washington.
The Army and Navy Gazette says; “An
end to lhe war. except in mutual ruin, we
can see none. Those who speak of reducing
the South to the state of San Domingo, lit
tie realize the miseries and horrors which
must befall the South if her bleeding car
cass lies unresistingly at the foot of armed
Abolitionism.”
A late dispatch from Indianapolis says :
“ Bills have been introduced int ) the House
looking towards a stringent enforcement of
the thirteenth article of the Constitution
prohibiting negro immigration. The de
mocracy will pass one or the other of these
bills. Lincoln’s freed niggers can not come
into the State of Indiana.”
The Washington telegraphic correspon
dent states that there is the best authority
for saying that the statements that the Em
peror of the French has made a renewed
proposal of mediation to the British Gov
ernment since the battle of Fredericksburg,
is entirely without truth. «The unfriendly
interpretation put upon the Emperor’s re
marks respecting the United States by a
portion of the press, and the reports of
conferences with Mr. Slidell, are unjust and
unfounded.
FOREIGN.
All the Spanish ministry have resigned.
, O’Donnell had formed a new Cabinet.
It is rumored that Turkey is making
warlike preparations.
Jalapa has been abandoned by the French,
and the French expedition against Tampico
had failed.
The Italian question had assumed a new
phase. England had officially proposed to
Pope Pius 9th to leave Rome and reside at
Malta. The Pope declined the offer.
A famine is said to exist in Ireland. The
means of the small farmers were exhaust
ed, laborers unemployed, and the manufac
turers’ interests desperately distressed.
An influential deputation from the Eman
cipation Society waited on Minister Adams
on the 16th, and presented resolutions
sympathizing with the Lincoln Government.
The latest news from Mexico announces
that the French are reported as completely
routed at Acajete, and the defeat of Gen.
Berthier at Rio Seco. The French are said
to have slaughtered each other in a fog.
The London correspondent of the Man
chester Guardian, writing on the subject of
the emancipation proclamation, says he
hears a very general expression of opinion
that the first black outrage will be the sig
nal for European intervention in the inter
ests of humanity.
Messas. Bright and Scholefield had again
been speaking in Birmingham in reference
to belligerent rights. Mr. Bright did not
think any change could be made in the de
termination of the Paris Congress. He
questioned whether commercial men de
sired peace in America. It would bring
ruin to many. He complained of Russell
and Gladstone, and bitterly denounced the
London Times for misleading the public on
American questions.
Current Event*.
The iniative step has been taken to form
an iron manufacturing company in Troup
county.
The Town Commissioners of Forsyth
have fixed the license fee to retail liquors at
S 3,000; to sell by the quart, SSOO. Tax
on billiard and pool tables, each, SSOO.
An order from the Secretary of War,
received by Lieut. Col. Weems
ordered the enrollment of all the members
of the fire companies in that city.
The Chambers (Ala.) Tribune says the
wheat crop in that section is promising, and
if no unforeseen accident occurs, will yield
an ample supply. We are glad to learn
from our exchanges that the prospect is
fine throughout the Confederacy for a good
wheat crop.
The Macon Telegraph, of the 9th, says
that the Grand Jury of Bibb county were
remarkably vigilant during the past week,
in the prosecution of its search after the
“ men of sin.” Some half dozen women
were indicted for keeping houses of ill-fame; ,
and the slashing thrust of forty indictments
against the “sporting fraternity,” will make
the tiger lie down for a season at least.
The Rebel Banner, Shelbyville, Tenn., '
says there are over 30,000 Federal troops
in Central and Northern Kentucky, distri
buted as follows : at Danville 8,000, Lex
ington 6,000, Frankfort 2,000, and bet wee i
Louisville and Frankfort, 6,000. These
hold the people in complete awe, and there
is a perfect reign of terrorism prevailing.
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k Peruoiml.
Mr. Vallandigham, the ebnservatist,
has been nominated for Governor of Ohio.
—Tom Thumb is going to be married to 1
Miss Livinia Warren, a little songstress
only thirty-two inches high. Humph?
Governor (?) Stanley, of North Caro
lina, has resigned on account of the eman
cipation proclamation.
lt was reported in Mobile, on the 6th
inst., that the Federal Genera! Rosencranz
died recently in Tennessee from pneumonia.
I
Col. W. T. Wofford has been appointed
a Brigadier-General, and has been assigned
to the command of the brigade of the late
Gen. Cobb.
Rev. T. J. Bowen, former missionary
to Africa, has been restored to health, in
body and mind, and is preparing ananaljt
leal spelling-book.
Private. Jeremiah P. Terrell, of Co.
• K, 2d Tennessee regiment, died on the sth
. in it., at LaGrange, Ga., from the efieets ot
a wound received in the hand at Murfrees
boro’.
—The Yankees have installed the widow
of Old John Brown at Suffolk as inspector
general of ladies passing the lines under
lhe flags of truce. This coarse old creature
delights in subjecting Southern ladies to
every species of indignity.
Our Army Correspondence.
[/’or The Bap t int Banner.]
Headquarters 31st Ala. Vols , )
Vicksburg, January 31, 1863. J
As times are becoming somewhat warm
around this devoted little city, I will pen
down some of my stray thoughts for The
Banner.
Yesterday our regiment was on duty
eight miles below Vicksburg, near the little
town of Warrenton. Our Colonel being
indisposed, the gallant Major of our regi
ment, G. W. Mattison, was in command.
The Yankees having captured a small fer
ry-boat of ours, about ten miles below the
city, were using it much to their advantage
and our discomfiture, in transporting their
heavy guns up and down the river, where
by placing them on select points on the
Louisiana side. They play on us with some
effect. On the occasion referred to, the
“ Cherokee Battery,” from North Georgia,
formerly commanded by Major Yeiser of
Rome, now by Capt. Corput, was ordered
to open on the stolen boat with a view to
its destruction, and the 31st Alabama was
sent to its support. Several of the enemy’s
shell passed in rather close proximity to
our boys. One having struck the earth
very near at hand, the Major and several
of our men were examining the excavation,
when another ball from the same passed
through the Major’s legs, literally tearing
away the seat and legs of his pants, though
without breaking the skin ; and passing on
in its blind course, struck a man standing
behind the Major, whose name was Gilbert,
belonging to company K, tearing off* one
leg near its junction with the body, fearful
ly injuring the other, and inflicting a wound
that killed him in a few hours. 1 hope this
brave young patriot’s name will be remem
bered among the “ unrecorded dead” of our
Confederacy.
The Yankee fleets are still to be seen at
the upper mouth of the great ditch on the
other side of the river, where a large nurti
ber of men, said to be three thousand, are
diligently engaged in changing the course
of the “ father of waters.” Whether they
will succeed or not is a question that con
cerns many. This the future alone can re
veal. It they do guide the great river
through the proposed channel, it seems to
me they will have accomplished but little ;
for it wilt be a very easy task for our folks
to place batteries anywhere on the bank of
the river below the mouth of the channel,
that will effectually command the river,
and hurl todestru jtion every transport that
dares to pass. The opening of the river
amounts to nothing more or less than the
taking of Vicksburg. And who is sufficient
for such an undertaking? The civil and
military authorities hereabouts conduct
themselves as though the enemy were a
thousand miles away.
Quite a little adventure happened to a
young officer, belonging to the staff’ of one
of our Generals at this place, which I will
relate. He had acted as spy on several oc
casions for the Confederates, with consider
able success; and the other day he went
over among the “blue coats” to see how
they were progressing with their ditch.—
Dressed in citizen’s habit, he was making
himself free and easy among them, when,
to his surprise and complete undoing, he
met the traitor, face to face, who, a few days
before, had delivered up a ferry-boat of
ours to the Yankees—the one spoken of
above in this article. The treacherous
scamp immediately reported the spy to the
commanding officer, and he was seized.—
He first reported that he was an overseer
on a plantation just below ; but the Yankees
making inquiry of some did negroes on the
place, found ofit he was trying to deceive
them. They decided, consequently, that
he should meet his fate the next day. He
was placed under charge of two or three
privates and a sergeant. That night the
guard stepped off a few paces from our
hero, when he put on a Yankee overcoat,
leisurely walked off from the “ bull ring,”
and passed on down through the Yankee
encampment, until he was eight miles be
low their lines, where he crossed the river,
and arrived safely at Vicksburg.
The ’i ankees are continually firing on
our men below the city. They aim to ef
fect a landing if they can, I suppose.
Yours, \ T. B. E.
THE GRAVE.
DIED.
In the town of Thomaston, Ga., op the
6th January, 1863, Deacon Burwell W.
Jackson, in the fifty third year of his age.
He left home that morning in as good
health as usual, for the purpose of attending
the. sale of some property ; had just been
engaged in bidding on behalf of a friend,
when, apparently fainting, he fell in the
midst of the crowd. Itecovering somewhat'
trom the shock, by the assistance of friends'
he arose, drank some water and sat up.—.
In a very few minutes, however, he fell |
again and breathed only about twice before*
he was a lifeless corpse.
This case furnishes additional evidence
that it is our duty to “be also ready,” for!
in the midst of life and health we are in!
danger of death. No man of his age had,'
apparently, fa’rer prospects of a long life
than did our deceased friend the morning
on which he died.
The deceased was first married to Clara
Harris, who died suddenly during his ab
sence from home, on the 14th of May, 1859,
leaving him six sons and one daughter. Ou
the 19th of November, 1859, he was mar
ried to Mrs. Malinda Rollins, with whom,
as also with his former wife, he lived m the
greatest harmony.
The writer had been acquainted with'
Deacon Jackson for more than twenty years,
having lived during that period, with the
exception of about two years, within two
miles of him. I never knew him to be
angry with, nor to speak evil of any man.
He had more dealings with others than falls
to the lot of one man in a thousand, and
yet he was so and upright in all
his business transactions, that no hard feel
ings ever arose between him and the other
party. In fact, he did more business and
was less in law than any man I ever knew.
1 Brother Jackson was among the first who
' settledin Upson county. He here accumu
lated a fortune, and all the while maintained
a good character. He commenced life a
poor young man, and died with a compe
tency of this world’s goods around him ;
’ and what is better than all, he left behind
■ him the esteem and good-will of all his
. neighbors who are ready to testify to his
kindness, liberality, and benevolence.
1 Asa neighbor, Deacon Jackson made no
distinction between the rich and the poor,
but was ever the poor man’s friend— often
dividing his provisions with him when he
could not get provisions elsewhere. He
was, emphatically, the benefactor of the
poor of his neighborhood, and abundantly
verified the truth of the Scriptures which
say : “ There is that scattereth and yet in
creaseth; and there is that withholdeth
more than is meet, but it tendeth to pover
ty. The liberal soul shall be made fat;
and he that watereth shall be watered also
himself.” “He that withholdeth corn, the
people shall curse him ; but blessing shall
be upon the head of him that selleth it. —
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack.”
Brother Jackson was useful to the public
at large, and he will be missed not only by
his immediate neighborhood, but by the
people of the whole county and by those of
the adjoining counties. Monuments of his
industry and perseverance, in the form of
public works of various descriptions, are
standing all over those several counties. —
He was not a passive character living in the
world to no purpose, but was a man of
great energy and activity, and has made the
world better by having lived in it.
As a member of the Church, our deceased
brother was orderly and upright, and did
his whole duty. In the execution of disci
pline he was prompt, and if he erred at all
it was always on the side of charity. As a
Deacon, he was faithful and performed ev
ery duty to the best of his knowledge and
ability.
He will be missed by his church as a
member and a deacon ; by his neighborhood
as a benefactor, and by the whole country
as one of its most useful citizens. But most
of all, the loss will be felt by his family.—
The wife has lost a loving husband, the
children an affectionate father, the servants
a good master. May the Lord comfort and
sustain them under great trial. We confi
dently believe that their loss is his eternal
gam. _____ _ W. H. .
Died, at his residence near Cassville.
Ga., on 30th November, 1862, of typhoid
pneumonia, Mr, Robert Rodgers, in the
seventy-fourth year of his age.
Mr. Rodgers was a native of South Car
olina, and immigrated to Georgia in 1842.
He was for fifty-five years a member of the
Baptist Church. He was a pious man, and
took great interest in the affairs of the Re
deemer’s kingdom. He was noticeable for
the pleasure he took in conversing about
religion, and the facility with which he il
lustrated the doctrines of grace from his
own experience. He spoke little of men or
the failure of professors. His pleasure was
in the religion found in the Scriptures, and
his confidence in it was that it was support
ed by a living and ruling Lord. He raised
a large and regpectable family, all of whom
are members of the Baptist Church and
hold his memory in reverence.
In his last illness, brother Rodgers shew
ed, not merely submission, but pleasurable
confidence in the goodness of the doings of
the Lord. “He went to his grave of a full
age, as a schock of corn cometh in in his
season.” R.
DA YTO N ’ S
SELECT SCHOOL FOR GIRLS,
AT LAFAYETTE, GA.
Elder A. C. DAYTON President, and Teacher of Chem
istry, Botany, Mental Philosophy, Rhetoric, etc.
Miss LAURA H. DAYTON,- Teacher of the Latin and
Greek Languages, Algebra, Geometry, etc.
Tcition: In the preparatory classes, per term of five
months, |io 00
In the higher classes, 25 oo
I Board can be had, In good families, from twenty to
twenty-five dollars per month.
Only a limited number of Pupils will be received, as
our object is to give to each one the most thorough men
tal discipline.
The pupils should bring with them all the requisite
books, as it is difficult to procure them here,
Lafayette, February V, 1563.
HERCER UNIVERSITY,
PENFIELD, GREENE COUNTY, GEORGIA.
FACULTY.
President —N. M. Crawford, D. D.
Professors—S. P. Sanford, A. M.,
J. E. Willett, A. M.,
U. W. Wise, A. M.
Theological Seminary.—Professor N.
M. Crawford, D. D.
•departments.
1. A college course of four years, equal to that
' of the best colleges in the country.
2. A theological course, of three years, design
ed for those who are preparing for the Gospel Min
ister.
8. A scientific course of four years, including,
with gome additions, all the studies o) the collegi
ate course, except the ancient languages.
4. An academical department, embracing all who
are not prepared to enter college.
COMMENCEMENT AND VACATIONS.
The Commencement is held on the second Wed
nesday in July.
There are two vacations, dividing the year into
two terms.
Fall Term begins on the first Wednesday in Sep
tember, and closes on the 13th of December.
Spring Term begins on the fourth Wednesday in
January, and closes on Commencement day.
8. LANDRUM, Secr’y Board Trustees,
July 26,1862. Savannah, Ga
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neer in Agricultural improvement—the only
Agricultural Monthly Journal in the Confederate
{States that has lived “ through the war ’ —is still
; published regularly, and will enter upon its 21st
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scribe ! One Dollar per year, in advance!
Address D. REDMOND, Augusta, Ga.
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